Tag: World Bank
Latin America wants to use the boom
The Inter-American Development Bank raised the need for both Latin America and the institution undertake reforms to leverage structural boom prevailing in the region. The 48 IDB governors installed on Saturday in Panama its 54th Annual Meeting, in which, among other objectives, seek to advance a strategy to restructure their service windows to the private [...]
The World Bank warns that at current global temperature will rise 4 degrees by 2100
The World Bank (WB) warned today that the “current rate” the planet will overheat 4 degrees by the end of the century, causing extreme heat waves and rising sea level in parts of three feet, and urged action against climate change. The president of the international institution, Jim Yong Kim, said that “the lack of [...]
Meeting of the IMF and World Bank with Europe
The rise of financial tensions in Europe, negotiating to expand the IMF’s resources and the selection of a new World Bank president, will mark the spring meetings of both bodies to be held this coming week in Washington. The traditional April meeting will open on Tuesday with the publication by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) [...]
Ocampo demands a process “transparent” and criticizes the opacity of the U.S. candidate
The Colombian Jose Antonio Ocampo, presidential candidate of the World Bank today called for a process “transparent” and criticized not yet know the position of the candidate, the Korean-American Jim Yong Kim. “It would be important to have a public debate. I know and the opinions of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (third candidate), but do not know [...]
BRICS want development bank monetary policy and criticize EU and U.S.
The BRICS as a group will not support a candidate for president of the World Bank but progress in the project to create a development bank, criticized the monetary policy of the United States and Europe and called for dialogue with Iran and Syria in the crosshairs of the Western powers. In their fourth summit [...]
World Tour of the U.S. World Bank Candidate for Latin America, Africa, and Asia
The U.S. nominee to head the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim will begin on Tuesday a two-week international tour during which he will travel to Latin America, Africa and Asia, announced the U.S. executive. From March 27 to April 9, Jim travel to Mexico and Brazil, Ethiopia, China, Japan, South Korea and India, said the [...]
U.S. Nominee to chair the World Bank traveling to Africa, Asia and Latin America
Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee to head the World Bank (WB), travels from this Tuesday until April 9 in Africa, Asia and Latin America to hear opinions on the future of the institution in the process of choice. The Treasury Department today announced U.S. tour, including Ethiopia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Brazil and [...]
The Colombian Ocampo hopes his country’s support for his candidacy
The Colombian Jose Antonio Ocampo today expressed hope that his Government supported his candidacy to head the World Bank (WB), although last week the Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry, announced that this was not a priority . Besides Ocampo, who has been nominated to replace Robert Zoellick for a group of emerging countries, choose to [...]
An Americal or Colombian To Head The World Bank
The World Bank official on Friday at the three candidates vying to succeed Robert Zoellick in his presidency: it is his compatriot and favorite, Jim Yong Kim, the Colombian Jose Antonio Ocampo and the Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Ocampo, a former Minister of Finance Colombian who currently serves as professor at Columbia University (New York), had [...]
Obama Presents Worl Bank Candiate
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday appointed Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-born American who heads the prestigious Dartmouth College, as a candidate for president of the World Bank (WB), and thus opened the dispute with applicants from Colombia and Nigeria. “It is time for an expert in development lead development agency world’s largest,” said Obama, [...]
