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    World Bank to appoint 'global practices' directors this week

    World Bank President Jim Kim announced that the appointment of senior directors for the new "global practices" will be finalized later this week ahead of the institution's spring meetings. The new positions will be highly scrutinized by staff as the face of Kim's ambitious reform agenda.

    By Paul Stephens // 01 April 2014

    World Bank President Jim Kim announced on Monday that the appointment of senior directors of the bank’s “global practices” will be finalized later this week ahead of the institution’s spring meetings.

    “I am extremely pleased with the group that we have put together,” Kim said in reply to a question from Devex during a call with reporters.

    “It was a very open process that I did not get involved in until the very end,” he added. “But then, when it got to the last 2 or 3 finalists, I interviewed every single one of them and got to know them in some depth.”

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      Paul Stephens is a former Devex staff writer based in Washington, D.C. As a multimedia journalist, editor and producer, Paul has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Washington Monthly, CBS Evening News, GlobalPost, and the United Nations magazine, among other outlets. He's won a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for a 5-month, in-depth reporting project in Yemen after two stints in Georgia: one as a Peace Corps volunteer and another as a communications coordinator for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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