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The World Bank’s New Chief

There will be a new leader of the World Bank. Will He Turn His Focus to Climate Action? The bank begins its spring meeting on Monday under pressure from world leaders, development experts, and shareholders, ready for significant changes. The World Bank appears to be on the verge of dramatic change when shareholders assemble in Washington for their annual spring meeting on Monday. Leaders from throughout the world, including the prime ministers of France and Barbados, Emmanuel Macron and Mia Mottley, as well as a number of academics and development specialists,

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want the bank to do more to assist developing nations that are struggling with climate change. In response to demands for action from the United States and others, the bank has articulated its own vision for transformation. Major shareholders have given their consent Initially, some changes were made, such as agreements allowing the bank to provide larger loans and draw in more private capital.

Ajay Banga, who is anticipated to be confirmed as the bank's president in the coming weeks, will be at the center of the negotiations. High expectations and pressing concerns will be placed on him when he assumes leadership this summer, including whether the bank will alter its lending strategy, whether it would ask shareholders for extra funding, and how he will lead the bank to handle challenges like poverty, global warming, and the conflict in Ukraine.

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Mark Malloch-Brown, head of the Open Societies Foundations and a former vice president of the World Bank, stated, "He'll get a honeymoon, but he better use that honeymoon well." These organizations avoid making rapid changes. Mr. Banga, 63, a seasoned finance executive, was named Mastercard's CEO in 2010, just after the company, which had previously been controlled by a group of more than 25,000 financial institutions, became public. In his ten years as CEO, he transformed Mastercard into a titan with a market capitalization of $350 billion.

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Mike Froman, a longtime Mastercard executive who is becoming leadership of the Council on Foreign Relations, said that Froman "fundamentally transformed what was a slow, bankassociation culture into a high-performing, agile, innovative, proactive, now Fortune 20 company." That included everything from leadership to inspiration to vision, but changing culture was also crucial.

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In addition to lacking proper attention to climate change, the bank is criticized for being painfully sluggish to react to key crisis, lacking ambition and originality. The primary goal of the bank is to reduce global poverty, and Mr. Banga stated that he wants to do this while also tackling some of the largest challenges that the world is currently facing. In an interview, he stated that "inequality is completely intertwined with challenges like climate change, challenges like the world's fragility with refugees and the like being caused by conflict, challenges like the pandemic, challenges like Russia and Ukraine, with what that does to food and fertilizer." I don't think you can put things into different categories and try to handle one without handling the other. When Mr. Banga assumes his new position, he'll also have to handle a difficult diplomatic task.

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the work. Despite the fact that the Biden administration has selected him, he will still need to negotiate the tension between the United States and China and pressure all of the bank's key owners to ensure that their investments align with their stated goals.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made it clear at a congressional hearing last month that she hopes the World Bank can help undermine China's efforts to exert influence in developing countries, which the United States views as predatory. Yellen's portfolio includes overseeing the United States' investment in the World Bank.

She requests that the World Bank offer a different type of loan that offers "quality infrastructure investment" and is "responsible."

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According to Ms. Yellen, "I'm very, very concerned about some of the activities that China engages in globally, investing in nations in ways that leave them in debt and don't promote economic development."

We are making a lot of effort to offset that effect in all of the international organizations in which we take part. It might also be challenging for the World Bank to obtain more money that would enable it to expand its lending capacity. According to Ms. Yellen, the World Bank can initially

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increase its capacity by making better use of its current resources and by being more creative. The United States does not, however, now demand that the bank's capital be increased. “We do In addition to World Bank investments, I want to see the federal government mobilize private resources, Ms. Yellen remarked. But at this moment, we are not asking for a capital increase.

According to Scott Morris, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, the discussion over additional money for the World Bank will inevitably turn to China and the reason why the second-largest economy in the world keeps borrowing from the bank. He stated that rather than conventional local initiatives, China's borrowing from the bank is likely to be accepted more if it is for projects with global advantages, like decreasing emissions. I do believe there is still tension there, Mr. Morris remarked. However, among the locations Mr. Banga will visit

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How he uses the bank to address climate change is the aspect that is most extensively examined. In February, Mr. Banga was chosen to run the World Bank after David Malpass, the institution's current president, announced his intention to step down a year early. Mr. Malpass, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, decided to resign early after facing criticism for refusing to state whether he agreed with the scientific consensus that fossil fuels were hastening global warming. The bank has been criticized for years by those who claim that it hasn't effectively addressed the economic destruction brought on by climate change, which is suffered disproportionately in developing nations. The bank has defended its track record, claiming that it has increased the amount of money it lends for climate projects. in the recent past.

As an Indian native, Mr. Banga will be the first president of the World Bank to come from a developing nation. He also claims to be aware of the severity of the problems that a warming world poses. The climate is important to me, Mr. Banga remarked. "Because time is of the essence." Former New York City mayor and significant climate change donor Michael Bloomberg said he thought Mr. Banga was capable of handling the job.

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According to a statement from Mr. Bloomberg, "He has made clear that climate change will become more fully integrated into the bank's work and mission." And his expertise puts him in a good position to take advantage of financial organizations' enthusiasm to collaborate with the World Bank in new ways that improve access to "Clean energy" Since he hasn't yet been confirmed, Mr. Banga will be in Washington this week but won't have an official role in the meetings. It seems unlikely that significant adjustments will be enacted at the bank's spring meetings.

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Civil society would argue that this needs to go far further and still lacks ambition, according to Mr. Malloch Brown. By the time of the annual meetings in the fall, people "will be expecting a much bigger installment."

Leaders from around the world and specialists in development will instead be looking for hints about shifting priorities, if the bank is going to ask its shareholders for more money, and how Mr. Banga is prepared

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to approach his role.

"This is a crucial position, yet it'sCongress is thinking about not just his job," declared Rachel Kyte, head of the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a former vice president of the World Bank. "Other governments must take the necessary action, and other institutions must also play their share. Hanging expectations that Banga alone is capable of solving these problems around his neck would be the worst thing possible. More than one person is involved in the system.

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