Promise-breaking at the World Bank, Part 1: Before
That 66th birthday month of his, March 2012, was auspicious for adding a little spice to his dreary life, but no, it just can’t last. Born in March 1946 alongside his evil twin, IMF, in Savannah...
View ArticlePromise-breaking at the World Bank, Part 2: After
If you want a world without poverty or species-threatening climate change, then let’s fast-forward a bit, to the point World Bank President Jim Yong Kim breaks your heart by endorsing what remains the...
View ArticlePromise-breaking at the World Bank, Part 3: Contenders
It is onto the terrain of unprecedented global financial malgovernance that Kim now strides. To be sure, on the way, he’s being tripped up a little by disgruntled neoliberals like Reuters columnist...
View ArticleWhy Jim Kim should consider resigning as World Bank president-designate
The situation for the many constituencies hopeful about Jim Yong Kim’s ‘election’ as World Bank president is comparable to early 2009. Recall, Barack Obama entered a US presidency suffering...
View ArticleJim Yong Kim’s mixed messages to the World Bank, and the world
Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the Bank. At the time, it was an entirely valid, realistic goal of the 50 Years is...
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