Jeff Sachs claims to have cleared his first main hurdle – a nomination from a member country of the Bank. His website carries the following quote from the Prime Minister of Kenya: Continue reading
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And the winner of the poll is…
As we closed the World Bank president poll this week, over 15,000 people had voted for their favourite developing country candidate.
The result? Well, our friends in Indonesia came out in force, resulting in a landslide victory for Sri Mulyani Indrawati, an Indonesian economist and one of the current Managing Directors of the World Bank Group, who beat her opponents with a staggering 87% of the votes.