The “yellow flyers” seem to have gotten their point across.
An “improvised” town hall meeting with President Jim Yong Kim in the opening hours of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings in Washington, D.C. offered employees a long-awaited — and some say “unprecedented” — chance to ask questions and voice concerns about the implementation of Kim’s reform package, which has been criticized by some over the alleged lack of transparency and how budget cuts will affect staffing.
The open meeting was Kim’s first official response to a series of anonymous, staff-led movements to press for more information about the reform and more direct interaction with staff whose job security — and job location — may be affected by it.