{"id":9897,"date":"2012-04-13T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-1-brazil-says-brics-to-make-joint-w-bank-decision\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:10:47","slug":"update-1-brazil-says-brics-to-make-joint-w-bank-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-brazil-says-brics-to-make-joint-w-bank-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Brazil says BRICS to make joint W. Bank decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BRASILIA, April 13<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Brazilian Finance Minister<br \/>\nGuido Mantega said the BRICS group of emerging market countries<br \/>\nis likely to make a joint decision on who to support for the<br \/>\nWorld Bank presidency as soon as Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mantega said the five countries were still discussing which<br \/>\ncandidate they would support. The BRICS group also includes<br \/>\nRussia, India, China and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brazil is talking with the BRICS and we will likely take a<br \/>\njoint position,&#8221; Mantega told reporters in Brasilia. &#8220;The<br \/>\nposition is likely to be taken today (Friday).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The candidates include former Colombian Finance Minister<br \/>\nJose Antonio Ocampo, who visited Brazil on Thursday, as well as<br \/>\nNigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and U.S. nominee<br \/>\nJim Yong Kim, a Korean-American health expert.<\/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>BRASILIA, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said the BRICS group of emerging market countries is likely to make a joint decision on who to support for the World Bank presidency as soon as Friday. Mantega said the five countries were still discussing which candidate they would support. The BRICS group also [&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-9897","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\/9897","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=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}