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A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitions

  • Written by Usman W. Chohan, Economist, UNSW
A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitionsA World Bank in sync with Donald Trump's views about climate change and multilateralism would probably help to increase Chin's role in international development and finance.Shutterstock

The seat of World Bank president is becoming vacant. Its president, Jim Yong Kim, will step down on January 31, three years earlier than his term formally ends.

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