The rejection of Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, puts the unfinished task of development in serious danger
The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as president of the World Bank over Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was overwhelmingly regarded as a vastly superior candidate, is impossible to condone but easy to explain. It also points to serious dangers for the unfinished task of development.
The selection process suffered from several iniquities and non-transparent features that undermined US claims to the contrary.
Indeed, those claims were of a piece with the linguistic obfuscations that dominate American public debate: just as carpet-bombing was called "pacification" during the Vietnam war, today illegal immigrants are called "undocumented aliens".
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