[Debate] (Fwd) CCS's WB prez-race seminar (new paper on Ngozi by Fidelis Allen)

[Patrick Bond]

*CCS Seminar: The World Bank presidential race*
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za



	*African interests and personality profiles*

Implications of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's Candidacy for Civil Society in 
Africa <http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/IMPLICATIONS%20OF%20PREZ%20RACE.pdf>
Fidelis Allen

*Speakers:* Fidelis Allen and Patrick Bond
*Date:* Wednesday 11 April 2012
*Venue:* CCS Seminar Room, Memorial Tower Building 6th floor
*Time:* 12:30-14:00

*Topic:*
The three candidates for World Bank president - the likely winner Jim 
Yong Kim (US), the Colombian economist Jose Antonio Ocampo, and the 
Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - are being scrutinised by 
civil society, and all have extreme flaws (e.g. highlighted by Patrick 
Bond at http://links.org.au/node/2814). Returning last week from 
Nigeria, CCS post-doctoral student Fidelis Allen reports on conditions 
that led to the country's most extensive social uprising, in early 
January after Okonjo-Iweala removed fuel subsidies, and how civil 
society fought back to rescind the cuts. On the more positive side, what 
do the extraordinary public health accomplishments of Kim, the brave 
Keynesian economic interventions advocated by Ocampo, and the pugnacious 
battle of Okonjo-Iweala against Barack Obama's undemocratic imposition 
of US monetary-biased voting power teach us about contesting the 
multilateral financial system and global governance more generally?

*Speakers:*
Fidelis Allen's post-doctoral research is on civil society environmental 
advocacy spanning the Niger Delta and South Durban; and Patrick Bond has 
been a long-time critic of and writer about the Bretton Woods 
Institutions and neoliberal economic policy.

*Photos*




*Who should be President of the World Bank? One of these - or no one?*


*Promise-breaking at the World Bank*
Patrick Bond
More <http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/Bond%20WB%20prez%20race.pdf>

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