{"id":9873,"date":"2012-04-13T04:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/emerging-world-seeks-single-candidate-for-world-bank-ocampo\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T04:09:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:09:02","slug":"emerging-world-seeks-single-candidate-for-world-bank-ocampo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/emerging-world-seeks-single-candidate-for-world-bank-ocampo\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging world seeks single candidate for World Bank-Ocampo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Ocampo: developing world candidates more prepared than US’<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Colombia’s Ocampo not standing aside for Nigerian nominee<\/p>\n

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BRASILIA, April 12<\/span> (Reuters) – Developing nations aim to
\nback a single candidate to challenge the United States for the
\npresidency of the World Bank, former Colombian finance minister
\nJose Antonio Ocampo said on Thursday, though he did not offer to
\nstand aside in his bid for the job.<\/p>\n

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Ocampo met Brazil’s Finance Minister Guido Mantega in the
\ncapital Brasilia as he seeks support from Latin America’s top
\neconomy in a three-way race for the global lender’s top seat.<\/p>\n

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Ocampo is running against Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi
\nOkonjo-Iweala and U.S. nominee Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American
\nhealth expert.<\/p>\n

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“We are all keeping an eye on how much support the United
\nStates has and also looking for ways to have a single candidate
\nfor developing nations,” Ocampo told reporters in Brasilia.<\/p>\n

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Ocampo said he and Okonjo-Iweala have more experience and
\nare better prepared than Kim to immediately take the top post.<\/p>\n

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When asked if he was planning to pull out of the race to
\nback the Nigerian, Ocampo said “that’s above me because this is
\na process that has to do with the ministers and they have to
\ncoordinate what position they will take.”<\/p>\n

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Ocampo was referring to finance ministers for developing
\ncountries like Brazil who are likely to make a decision on a
\nsingle candidate.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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