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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