{"id":9239,"date":"2012-03-23T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/wrapup-2-world-bank-race-heats-up-as-deadline-looms\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T13:25:29","slug":"wrapup-2-world-bank-race-heats-up-as-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-2-world-bank-race-heats-up-as-deadline-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 2-World Bank race heats up as deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. to nominate World Bank candidate on Friday<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* African powers nominate Nigeria&#8217;s Okonjo-Iweala<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ocampo nomination in doubt without Colombia support<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States faces an<br \/>\nunprecedented challenge to its grip on the World Bank<br \/>\npresidency, with emerging African economies nominating a<br \/>\ncandidate on Friday to set up the first contested bid for the<br \/>\ntop job at the global development lender.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Angola, Nigeria and South Africa endorsed the nomination of<br \/>\nNigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a respected<br \/>\neconomist and diplomat, as a candidate to take over the bank<br \/>\nwhen Robert Zoellick steps down in June.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The endorsement is in line with the belief that the<br \/>\nappointment of the leadership of the World Bank and its sister<br \/>\ninstitution, the International Monetary Fund, should be<br \/>\nmerit-based, open and transparent,&#8221; the three said in a<br \/>\nstatement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a rare example of unity among countries often at<br \/>\nloggerheads as they strive for dominance on the continent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Less than a day before the deadline to nominate, Washington<br \/>\nhas yet to announce its candidate &#8212; normally a shoo-in and<br \/>\nstill considered likely to be the appointee.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* U.S. to nominate World Bank candidate on Friday * African powers nominate Nigeria&#8217;s Okonjo-Iweala * Ocampo nomination in doubt without Colombia support By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States faces an unprecedented challenge to its grip on the World Bank presidency, with emerging African economies nominating a candidate on Friday [&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-9239","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\/9239","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=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}