Opprobrium from the atrium
Jim Yong Kim’s efforts to reform the World Bank are in trouble
THE fury would not have been much greater if anti-capitalist activists had taken over the vast atrium of the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington, DC. Yet the protesters who did so last month were the Bank’s own employees. The goodwill that first greeted the modernisation plans of Jim Yong Kim, the Bank’s president since 2012, has turned to rancour.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Opprobrium from the atrium”
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