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Monday 16 April 2012 9:41 pm

JIM YONG KIM IS NEW BOSS OF WORLD BANK

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AMERICA’S stranglehold over the World Bank presidency will last for at least another five years after the top job went to US nominee Jim Yong Kim. Nigerian rival Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had said that US “political weight” would determine the outcome.

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