{"id":9104,"date":"2012-03-20T03:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-2-signs-that-u-s-has-yet-to-make-world-bank-choice\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T03:20:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:28","slug":"update-2-signs-that-u-s-has-yet-to-make-world-bank-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-signs-that-u-s-has-yet-to-make-world-bank-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Signs that U.S. has yet to make World Bank choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Deadline is Friday; U.S. has always held post<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sachs builds support for candidacy, but not from U.S.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emerging markets talking about putting up a candidate<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Possible deal in the making on IFC top job<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details on IFC in paragraph 16)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; With just five days to go<br \/>\nfor nations to put forward nominees to lead the World Bank,<br \/>\nthere are few signs the United States has finalized its choice<br \/>\nto lead the global development lender.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The United States has held the presidency of the Bank since<br \/>\nits founding after World War Two, while a European has always<br \/>\nled its sister institution &#8211; the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Washington has yet to publicly identify a candidate and<br \/>\nsome observers think the delay could signal that the White House<br \/>\nis having a hard time convincing high-level officials to take<br \/>\nthe job. The White House and U.S. Treasury Department have<br \/>\ndeclined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sources with knowledge of the administration&#8217;s thinking say<br \/>\nthe hope was to convince a woman to enter the race to replace<br \/>\nRobert Zoellick, who has said he will step down when his term<br \/>\nexpires at the end of June.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Deadline is Friday; U.S. has always held post * Sachs builds support for candidacy, but not from U.S. * Emerging markets talking about putting up a candidate * Possible deal in the making on IFC top job (Adds details on IFC in paragraph 16) By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; With just [&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-9104","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\/9104","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=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}