By Caroline Hepker
For almost 70 years, the head of the World Bank has been an American, chosen by the US president. The bank’s sister organisation, the International Monetary Fund – created at the same time in the wake of World War II – has similarly always been led by a European.
That tradition is not expected to change now, even as the current World Bank chief Robert Zoellick prepares to step down in June and the deadline to propose a new candidate looms this Friday.
But for the first time this closed process, dominated by the US, is being challenged…
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