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Three Nominees For World Bank Presidency Commence Race With Statements
Several news outlets published articles recapping comments made Wednesday by the three nominees for the World Bank presidency. "In a written commentary released by the U.S. Treasury as he embarked on a global tour to sell his candidacy, ... Jim Yong Kim, the Korean-American physician nominated by Washington to lead the World Bank, said Wednesday his science training will help him make the Bank more responsive to the needs of developing countries," and that "the Bank needs to be 'more inclusive' and listen more to poor countries' own ideas about how to solve their problems," Agence France-Presse reports (3/28). On the two-week tour, Kim will visit "cities including Addis Ababa, New Delhi and Brasilia to seek advice about priorities for the bank, which lent $57 billion last fiscal year," Bloomberg News notes.
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