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IMF inches toward deal on boosting bailout funds

December 24, 2018 at 12:19 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund appeared to be inching toward a deal on increasing its financial firepower on Tuesday, with Japan, Sweden and Denmark committing a total of...

World Bank picks health expert Kim as president

August 23, 2021 at 4:40 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington's grip on the job and leaving developing countries...

World Bank picks health expert Kim as president

December 24, 2018 at 12:17 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Monday chose Korean-born American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president, maintaining Washington's grip on the job and leaving developing countries...

Ocampo ends World Bank bid, backs Nigerian

August 23, 2021 at 4:27 a.m.

WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president on Friday, leaving two candidates in an unprecedented challenge to U.S. control...

IMF funds drive caught in global power shift

August 23, 2021 at 4:25 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tensions among some of the world's leading economies have boiled up over a plan to raise new resources for the International Monetary Fund to contain the euro...

Ocampo ends World Bank bid, backs Nigerian

December 23, 2018 at 11:52 p.m.

WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president on Friday, leaving two candidates in an unprecedented challenge to U.S. control...

IMF funds drive caught in global power shift

December 23, 2018 at 11:49 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tensions among some of the world's leading economies have boiled up over a plan to raise new resources for the International Monetary Fund to contain the euro...

World Bank contest a test for industrial nations: Ocampo

August 23, 2021 at 4:10 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The unprecedented challenge posed by developing countries to the U.S. grip on the World Bank presidency will test industrial nations' commitment to an open selection process, former...

World Bank contest a test for industrial nations: Ocampo

December 23, 2018 at 11:20 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The unprecedented challenge posed by developing countries to the U.S. grip on the World Bank presidency will test industrial nations' commitment to an open selection process, former...

U.S. should lead to end World Bank tradition: Nigerian finance minister

August 23, 2021 at 4:09 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should take the lead and break the long tradition of an American always heading the World Bank, Nigerian finance minister and a nominee for...

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