{"id":9242,"date":"2012-03-24T03:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/wrapup-8-obama-taps-public-health-expert-for-world-bank\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:25:19","slug":"wrapup-8-obama-taps-public-health-expert-for-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-8-obama-taps-public-health-expert-for-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 8-Obama taps public health expert for World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. nominates Dartmouth College president for World Bank<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Jim Yong Kim is expert on HIV\/AIDS, South Korean born<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Nigerian Okonjo-Iweala, Colombian Ocampo also in race<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. nominee expected to win post<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Barack<br \/>\nObama on Friday nominated a Korean-American known for his work<br \/>\nin fighting disease in impoverished countries to lead the World<br \/>\nBank, a job emerging economies are contesting for the first<br \/>\ntime.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jim Yong Kim, 52, is president of Dartmouth College, an Ivy<br \/>\nLeague school in New Hampshire, and former director of the<br \/>\nDepartment of HIV\/AIDS at the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenge from emerging nations &#8211; Nigerian<br \/>\nFinance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian<br \/>\nfinance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo were also nominated &#8211; the<br \/>\nUnited States is expected to maintain its grip on the job, which<br \/>\nit has held since the bank was founded after World War Two.<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. nominates Dartmouth College president for World Bank * Jim Yong Kim is expert on HIV\/AIDS, South Korean born * Nigerian Okonjo-Iweala, Colombian Ocampo also in race * U.S. nominee expected to win post By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday nominated a Korean-American known for his [&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-9242","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\/9242","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=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}