{"id":5163,"date":"2012-03-27T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2012-03-27T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:50:39","slug":"repostmr-kim-vs-the-world-bankwhy-nations-fail-why-nations-fail-by-daron-acemoglu-and-james-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/27\/repostmr-kim-vs-the-world-bankwhy-nations-fail-why-nations-fail-by-daron-acemoglu-and-james-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Mr. Kim vs. the World Bank::Why Nations Fail &#8211; Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The nomination of Jim Yong Kim by President Barack Obama to be the next President of the World Bank is generating plenty of controversy.<br \/>\nLant Pritchett categorically stated that his nomination was a \u201cterrible idea\u201d.<br \/>\nWilliam\u00a0Easterly has already accused him of being anti-growth\u00a0(see also here).<br \/>\nPerhaps all of Mr. Kim\u2019s critics prefer the status quo where the World Bank is run by ex-warmongers (Robert McNamara), bankers (James Wolfensohn) or career civil servants (Robert Zoelick). Wait wasn\u2019t that the World Bank that they loved to criticize?<br \/>\nNow President Obama came up with a radical idea: \u00a0why not appoint someone with a\u00a0track record in solving the problems of poor people in developing countries? Before turning to any of Mr. Kim\u2019s theoretical books (quotes from which can be easily\u00a0taken out of context), you should first check out Partners in Health, the extraordinary organization he started in 1987 with Paul Farmer, Todd McCormack, Thomas J. White and Ophelia Dahl.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/whynationsfail.com\/\">Why Nations Fail &#8211; Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nomination of Jim Yong Kim by President Barack Obama to be the next President of the World Bank is generating plenty of controversy. Lant Pritchett categorically stated that his nomination was a \u201cterrible idea\u201d. William\u00a0Easterly has already accused him of being anti-growth\u00a0(see also here). Perhaps all of Mr. Kim\u2019s critics prefer the status quo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/27\/repostmr-kim-vs-the-world-bankwhy-nations-fail-why-nations-fail-by-daron-acemoglu-and-james-robinson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Mr. Kim vs. the World Bank::Why Nations Fail &#8211; Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}