New climateWorld Bank President Ajay Banga who was appointed in May has been a US citizen since 2007...
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World Bank President Ajay Banga has been on the diplomatic trail trying to drum up support for capital increases from wealthy countries to drive an additional US$100 billion of lending capacity...
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Spelling out sweeping reforms in the public sector President Bola Tinubu told Ajay Banga President of the World Bank in Abuja on 4 August that he was refocusing state spending to boost growth expand power generation and communications...
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During a discussion with Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank President Ajay Banga Ruto called for both organisations to be replaced as the main global lenders as part of an overhaul of the financial system (Dispatches 28/6/23 Rich economies side-step African calls for global tax treaty)...
Then it became clear that little was going to move on the plan until Ajay Banga the new President of the World Bank and former chief executive of Mastercard took over at the end of May replacing David Malpass...
Officials worry that decisions on debt restructuring at the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings in April could be held up by the exit of Bank President David Malpass and the arrival of his likely replacement US-nominee Ajay Banga (Dispatches 23/2/23 David Malpass quits bank as radical changes loom)...
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Picking two African states Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya as his first ports of call on 6-8 March appears to have boosted Ajay Banga's support in his campaign for the presidency of the World Bank...
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