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U.S. Nominee Jim Kim Likely To Emerge As World Bank President
"Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee, seems certain to become the next president of the World Bank after developing countries failed in an effort to unite behind a single candidate," the Financial Times reports, noting, "Jose Antonio Ocampo, the former Colombian finance minister, withdrew from contention and endorsed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian finance minister, after she won wider support among a group of developing countries on Friday." According to the newspaper, "The World Bank's executive board met on Friday to discuss interviews given by the three candidates," and "Kim, a health expert and president of Dartmouth College, is likely to emerge as the new president as early as Monday after the board takes a straw poll" (Harding/Fontanella-Khan/Leahy, 4/13).
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