{"id":9914,"date":"2012-04-14T04:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/ocampo-to-withdraw-from-world-bank-contest-sources\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:12:12","slug":"ocampo-to-withdraw-from-world-bank-contest-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ocampo-to-withdraw-from-world-bank-contest-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocampo to withdraw from World Bank contest-sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">WASHINGTON, April 13<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Former Colombian finance<br \/>\nminister Jose Antonio Ocampo is set to withdraw his nomination<br \/>\nfor the World Bank presidency on Friday in an agreement among<br \/>\nemerging and developing countries to coalesce around one<br \/>\nnominee, three sources said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sources said a straw poll among World Bank directors<br \/>\nrepresenting the Group of 11, which includes emerging countries<br \/>\nand Australia, backed Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi<br \/>\nOkonjo-Iweala.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ocampo was nominated by Brazil, which represents a<br \/>\nconstituency of Latin American countries on the World Bank<br \/>\nboard.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting By Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)<\/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>WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo is set to withdraw his nomination for the World Bank presidency on Friday in an agreement among emerging and developing countries to coalesce around one nominee, three sources said. The sources said a straw poll among World Bank directors representing the Group of [&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-9914","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\/9914","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=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}