A group of former World Bank officials has written a letter backing Nigeria's Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to be its next president.
So apparently, the World Bank is currently electing its next president and there seem to be a competition to be the chosen one.Traditionally the post is given to the candidate put forward by the US, which this time is Dr Jim Yong Kim, but in an open letter, 39 former economists and managers said the World Bank should choose the next chief on merit, which messed things up quite a bit.This is also the first time the World Bank has had to choose candidates since its birth.The executive board of the Bank has to choose between Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank managing director, Jose Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia, and Jim Yong Kim, a public health expert and president of Dartmouth College in the US.
So, is the board going to choose a person who is much more knowledgeable in terms of finance management? If so, i think that Mrs Okonjo-Iweala would stand a higher chance of getting elected as there are much more people supporting her to be the next president as Mrs Okonjo-Iweala has also been outlining what she thinks should be the Bank's main goal.
She said that it should be creating jobs, in both developing and developed countries, with a particular focus on youth unemployment because of the knock-on social problems it caused. Its all based on the majority votes.
Mali Troubles
Until January of this year, it was governed by the government of President Amani Toumani Toure. His government was struggling with 3 different movements from the north;Islamist movement of Ansar Din, Islamist movement of AQMI : Al-Quaeda in Islamic North-Africa, Independant movement of Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)
Many of the people from these movements were in Lybia, working for Coloned Gaddhafi, now that this one has been defeated and killed, they came back to Mali with weapons and no jobs.At the end of last year. They formed the most powerful Tuareg-led rebel group the region has known - the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA).
On the 22nd March 2012, some generals lead by Amadou Haya Sanogo considered that the central government was not being tough enough against those movements. So they decided to revolt against the government. Not only did this cause sanctions from foreign countries, it also caused a shortage of a certain number of products including oil, it has weaken the central government leaving way for these movements to take over. Now, the MNLA have ceased their operations because they said that they have captured enough territory to form their own state. The UN Security Council did called for an end to the fighting in Mali. Ansar Dine, an Islamic group which is affiliated with AL-Qaeda is also present and wants to impose Islamic law, or Sharia, across the whole of the West African state. Currently, Mali's borders have been closed to trade, the country's access to funds at the central bank for the region's common currency frozen and travel bans slapped on coup leaders and their supporters.
Abortion Attention!
Abortion clinic checks cost £1m
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the request at short notice from the Department of Health meant 580 pre-planned inspections were cancelled as the time spent on planning and inspecting equated to 1,100 days. Which would in the end take more than 3 years to complete such inspections. But at the start, inspectors visited nearly 300 abortion providers in England over three days in March, and found about 50 were not complying with laws or regulations.
This check was first conducted due to the work of abortion clinics which first came under the spotlight in February when the Daily Telegraph secretly filmed doctors and alleged some were agreeing to terminate fetuses when women did not want their baby because of its gender.There were also raised concerns that consent forms were being pre-signed;before a woman had even been seen.
To me, this is what our beliefs brought us to, the prejudice of the genders and they should have done the precise calculations before conducting such wide-scaled inspections.
If you have time, you can type more personal opinions. You make good claims/assertions, but don't elaborate on them enough.
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