{"id":8337,"date":"2012-02-26T02:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/brics-call-for-open-selection-of-next-world-bank-chief\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T02:34:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:18","slug":"brics-call-for-open-selection-of-next-world-bank-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/brics-call-for-open-selection-of-next-world-bank-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"BRICS call for open selection of next World Bank chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MEXICO CITY<\/span> Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; A meeting of BRICS<br \/>\nmajor emerging countries discussed the selection process of the<br \/>\nnext head of the World Bank and emphasized it should be open to<br \/>\nall countries, rejecting the tradition that the job<br \/>\nautomatically goes to an American, a senior BRIC official said<br \/>\non Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The official, speaking after a meeting of the BRICS &#8211;<br \/>\nRussia, South Africa, Brazil, India and China &#8211; said the United<br \/>\nStates had not circulated the name of its proposed candidate for<br \/>\nthe World Bank.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked whether emerging economies could field their own<br \/>\ncandidate for the post, the official said: &#8220;That is certainly a<br \/>\ndiscussion we will have.&#8221; \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting By Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; A meeting of BRICS major emerging countries discussed the selection process of the next head of the World Bank and emphasized it should be open to all countries, rejecting the tradition that the job automatically goes to an American, a senior BRIC official said on Saturday. The official, speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}