In early January 2019, Jim Yong Kim resigned as the World Bank president midway through his second term. Some of those in the World Bank-International Finance Corporation (IFC) group behaved as if they knew about it already. But the lesser mortals who were there at that time — including this writer — were left numb with shock and dismay.
Shock, because Dr Kim was a formidable leader with charisma and a proper backstory, and he could deliver a kick-ass Ted Talk. He was appointed as the World Bank president in 2012 by Barack Obama — the United States, the Bank’s
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