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The race to select the next president of the World Bank could be shaped by a strong international desire for the institution to have its first female president.
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“It would help the U.S. if they went with someone pathbreaking,” said Vijaya Ramachandran, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development think tank and former World Bank senior economist.
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“It would be great to have a female president of the World Bank, and given the U.S. is going to nominate someone, these are two really viable candidates,” Ms. Ramachandran said of Ms. Powell and Ms. Nooyi.
