Morning Briefing

"The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington's grip on the job and leaving developing countries frustrated with the selection process," Reuters reports (Wroughton, 4/16). "The 52-year-old president of Ivy League college Dartmouth beat Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to the post, the first time in the World Bank's history that the U.S. candidate has faced a serious challenge," the Guardian writes (Rushe, 4/16). "The Korean-American physician and anthropologist, who spent decades working on diseases such as tuberculosis and the AIDS virus, will be the bank's first leader drawn from the development world rather than politics or finance," the Wall Street Journal notes (Reddy, 4/16). "The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington's grip on the job and leaving developing countries frustrated with the selection process," Reuters reports (Wroughton, 4/16). "The 52-year-old president of Ivy League college Dartmouth beat Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to the post, the first time in the World Bank's history that the U.S. candidate has faced a serious challenge," the Guardian writes (Rushe, 4/16). "The Korean-American physician and anthropologist, who spent decades working on diseases such as tuberculosis and the AIDS virus, will be the bank's first leader drawn from the development world rather than politics or finance," the Wall Street Journal notes (Reddy, 4/16).