As expected, the World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, a public-health expert, as its next president.

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Last October, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim appointed an independent panel of experts to review Doing Business.

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Jim Yong Kim, speaking at Davos, said the institution should not "turn its back" on poor nations that seek the cheap source of energy.

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Global figures include United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and the International Monetary Fund's managing director, Christine Lagarde.

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Even the World Bank presidential contention echoes doubts about free trade, with the U.S. candidate, Jim Yong Kim, having authored a compilation of anti-globalization tracts back in 2000.

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It did not happen at the World Bank either: Washington leaned on the members of the developed world to back their man Jim Yong Kim, the former president of Dartmouth College.

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The bankers will perhaps let us in on their game in on-the-record Davos sessions (most of the good ones are closed to the press) with European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and Nobelist Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz.

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Canadian Mike Weir and South Africa Ernie Els were on top for the international side as they beat Jim Furyk and Anthony Kim while Asian pair Yang Yong-Eun and Ryo Ishikawa recorded an emphatic victory, downing Kenny Perry and Sean O'Hair 4 and 3.

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