Mark Weisbrot, Patrick Bond and Elaine Zuckerman discuss and debate Obama’s “surprising” nomination, now head of the World Bank Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. When President Obama announced that Jim Yong Kim would be the American nominee to head the World Bank, […]
Author Archives: Patrick Bond, Mark Weisbrot, and Elaine Zuckerman
Patrick Bond is the Director of the Center for Civil Society and Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Bond is the author and editor of the recently released books, Politics of Climate Justice and Durban’s Climate Gamble.
Mark Weisbrot is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: the Phony Crisis and has written extensively about economies of developing countries in Latin America. He is also the founding president of Just Foreign Policy, an NGO dedicated to reforming US foreign policy. He is also a weekly columnist with The Guardian.
Elaine Zuckerman is the President of Gender Action. It is the world's only organization dedicated to promoting gender justice in all International Financial Institution investments.
