{"id":9908,"date":"2012-04-14T04:12:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/refile-update-5-ocampo-ends-world-bank-bid-backs-nigerian\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T04:12:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:12:05","slug":"refile-update-5-ocampo-ends-world-bank-bid-backs-nigerian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/refile-update-5-ocampo-ends-world-bank-bid-backs-nigerian\/","title":{"rendered":"REFILE-UPDATE 5-Ocampo ends World Bank bid, backs Nigerian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Colombia&#8217;s Ocampo withdraws from World Bank contest<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. nominee Jim Yong Kim likely winner<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Russia says it supports Kim<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton and Tiago Pariz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON\/BRASILIA, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Colombian<br \/>\nfinance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become<br \/>\nWorld Bank president on Friday, leaving two candidates in an<br \/>\nunprecedented challenge to U.S. control of the global<br \/>\ndevelopment institution.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the board of the World Bank to meet on Monday to pick a<br \/>\nnew president, Ocampo said he hoped emerging-market nations<br \/>\nwould rally behind Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala<br \/>\nin a race that he said had turned highly political.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank managing director, is now<br \/>\nthe sole candidate from developing nations in a race against<br \/>\nU.S. nominee Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American health expert who<br \/>\nappears almost certain to secure the post.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ocampo, who was nominated by Brazil, said his candidacy had<br \/>\nbeen &#8220;handicapped&#8221; by a lack of support from his own country.<br \/>\nColombia said last month it was focusing on a bid for the<br \/>\npresidency of the International Labor Organization, where it had<br \/>\na greater chance of success.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Colombia&#8217;s Ocampo withdraws from World Bank contest * U.S. nominee Jim Yong Kim likely winner * Russia says it supports Kim By Lesley Wroughton and Tiago Pariz WASHINGTON\/BRASILIA, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president on Friday, leaving two candidates in an [&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-9908","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\/9908","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=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}