A Change at the World Bank
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-03-27/change-world-bank
President Obama nominated the current president of Dartmouth College, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, to head the World Bank. A physician and public health expert with no finance background, he's an unconventional choice to say the least. Who he is, why he was chosen, how he stacks up against the well-known economists nominated by others: Colombian Jose Antonio Ocampoor and Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Guests
Howard Schneider
Staff Reporter, Washington Post
Lawrence MacDonald
Vice President, Communications and Policy Outreach, Center for Global Development
Comments
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Welcomed nomination by Mr. Obama.
It is significant that Dr. Kim has been actively involved with development on both a grass-roots level and an organizational level at WHO. From my view, he is well-poised to ground-truth the Bank's premise that they are interested in hiring more technical specialists in the the development sectors. Let's see how he fares in a sea of economists.
Annette