As expected, the World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, a public-health expert, as its next president.
Last October, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim appointed an independent panel of experts to review Doing Business.
Jim Yong Kim, speaking at Davos, said the institution should not "turn its back" on poor nations that seek the cheap source of energy.
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.
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.
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.
North Korea coach Kim Yong-Jun Kim had nothing but praise for his players after the final whistle.
The distraught, devoutly Catholic grandmother forgave the errant driver, Kim Yong Jae, 24.
Mr. Kim's longtime second-in-command, Kim Yong Nam, took his place at the parade and may take on a bigger short-term role.
And while Seoul is relatively easily navigable for non-Korean speakers, the nation still has poor tourism infrastructure, notes Kim Soo-yong, a manager handling inbound sales at Seoul-based Hanjin Travel.
"We will hold on to any small hope to save them, " Ryu Haeng-sik, husband of hostage Kim Yoon-yong, 35, told The Associated Press outside the embassy, his eyes red from weeping and fatigue.
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.
Bae-Yong Lee, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Gun-Soo Kim, Secretary-General of the Expo Organizing Committee, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC, and Taeck-Soo Chun, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO were present at the opening ceremony.
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