{"id":7607,"date":"2012-04-16T13:51:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2012-04-16T13:51:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:51:49","slug":"dartmouth-college-president-will-head-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/04\/16\/dartmouth-college-president-will-head-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Dartmouth College President Will Head World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brendan Smialowski \/ AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>

Jim Yong Kim will take over the World Bank presidency this summer<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s official: Dartmouth College<\/a> President Jim Yong Kim will head the World Bank<\/a> starting in July.\u00a0 But the New York Times’ <\/em>Annie Lowrey reports<\/a> that this time around, the board’s vote was more than just a rubber-stamping process:<\/p>\n

“While the selection of Dr. Kim by the bank’s 25-member executive board was no surprise, the board had, for the first time, considered more than one candidate<\/a>, a reflection of the increasing clout of emerging-market nations on the global stage.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kim faced challenges from Nigerian Finance Minister and former World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Colombian Jos\u00e9 Antonio Ocampo of the UN, who formerly worked with the Colombian Central Bank.\u00a0 But, Lowrey reports, they were long-shots.\u00a0 That’s because “Europe, the United States and Japan control about half of the voting shares.”\u00a0 <\/p>\n

What their candidacies did<\/em> do, she writes, is pump some life into the old debate about whether an American should always be in charge of the DC-based World Bank.\u00a0 As an acknowledgement of their growing influence, Lowrey notes that Kim worked to cultivate support for his candidacy among emerging markets with a listening tour.\u00a0 She also cites recent comments:<\/p>\n

“In a recent interview<\/a>, Dr. Kim stressed that he wanted to make the bank as inclusive as possible, while achieving its mission of eradicating poverty and supporting economic development.<\/p>\n

He also said he wanted to make the bank\u2019s programs more data-driven. ‘There\u2019s no one-size-fits-all. There\u2019s no big idea that will lead to economic growth for everybody,’ he said. ‘I think we must be evidence-based and evidence-driven, and we must pay attention to local contexts.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official: Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim will head the World Bank starting in July.\u00a0 But the New York Times’ Annie Lowrey reports that this time around, the board’s vote was more than just a rubber-stamping process: “While the selection of Dr. Kim by the bank’s 25-member executive board was no surprise, the board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":7610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[505,517],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}