{"id":9980,"date":"2012-04-17T04:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-4-world-bank-picks-health-expert-kim-as-president\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T04:19:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:19:20","slug":"update-4-world-bank-picks-health-expert-kim-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-world-bank-picks-health-expert-kim-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-World Bank picks health expert Kim as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Decision by 25-member board was not unanimous<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emerging nations question selection process, US dominance<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kim is president of Dartmouth College<\/p>\n<p> (Adds analyst&#8217;s comments, details on selection)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The World Bank on Monday<br \/>\nchose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new<br \/>\npresident, maintaining Washington&#8217;s grip on the job and leaving<br \/>\ndeveloping countries frustrated with the selection process.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kim, a physician and anthropologist who makes for a somewhat<br \/>\nunorthodox choice to head the global anti-poverty lender, won<br \/>\nthe job over Nigeria&#8217;s widely respected finance minister, Ngozi<br \/>\nOkonjo-Iweala, with the support of Washington&#8217;s allies in<br \/>\nWestern Europe, Japan and Canada &#8211; as well as some emerging<br \/>\neconomies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was the first time in the World Bank&#8217;s history that the<br \/>\nUnited States&#8217; hold on the job was challenged.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision by the World Bank&#8217;s 25-member board was not<br \/>\nunanimous, with emerging economies splitting their support.<br \/>\nBrazil and South Africa backed Okonjo-Iweala, while three<br \/>\nsources said China and India supported Kim.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kim, 52, who is president of Dartmouth College, will assume<br \/>\nhis new post on July 1 after Robert Zoellick steps down as head<br \/>\nof the World Bank.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Decision by 25-member board was not unanimous * Emerging nations question selection process, US dominance * Kim is president of Dartmouth College (Adds analyst&#8217;s comments, details on selection) By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining [&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-9980","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\/9980","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=9980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}