The Treasury Department has published the statement that US nominee, Jim Yong Kim, made Wednesday morning to the in camera session of the World Bank’s executive directors before a lengthy questioning and a private lunch.
CSO colleagues who have been skeptical about the process and about Jim Kim’s writings, background and commitment should read the ending Continue reading
A New York Times op-ed by Thomas J. Bollyky the senior fellow for global health, economics and development at the Council on Foreign Relations lays out a strong case for selecting Jim Kim as part of a strategy for the United States to get behind the momentum for change at the World Bank. Continue reading
Despite the fractious disagreement and impugning, there is full agreement that the Bank needs a new direction, in a new world. Continue reading
The World Bank’s vice president for Africa, Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili, and Nigeria’s coordinating minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had an interesting exchange on fuel oil prices in late December 2011. Continue reading
CGD President Nancy Birdsall announced on Monday that the Center for Global Development and the Washington Post would co-host “a forum where the candidates could explain their vision for the bank’s future and be questioned by the media and members of the international development community.”
This confirms that “this time is different”
For the first time the candidates offer a Continue reading