https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/he-can-rap-he-can-dance-but-should-jim-yong-kim-be-the-next-president-of-the-world-bank/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/he-can-rap-he-can-dance-but-should-jim-yong-kim-be-the-next-president-of-the-world-bank/#comment-3432 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:35:36 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=9373#comment-3432 It might be nice to have somebody who has a proven track record to care for development for a change.

]]> https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/he-can-rap-he-can-dance-but-should-jim-yong-kim-be-the-next-president-of-the-world-bank/#comment-3431 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:17:34 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=9373#comment-3431 On the other hand, Peter Bosshard at International Rivers has a different take on Jim Yong Kim’s suitability. See his blog http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/7317.)I rather liked his comments “I do not understand why NGO activists
need to support representatives of the status quo such as South Africa’s
finance minister Trevor Manuel or in fact Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was
the World Bank’s Managing Director for many years…While I cannot claim to know Jim Yong
Kim’s work in detail, this approach [his work at Partners for Health especially] is certainly closer to my heart than
the policies espoused by other candidates for the World Bank job”. He concludes by asking if Jim Yong Kim’s prsidency would offer a chance to reinvent the World Bank (to address poverty and injustice through bottom-up solutions), especially if his nomination is a signal that the Obama administration would back a new approach.

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