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...million people out of poverty by 2015. Over the past 30 years, economies that have put trade at the the forefront of their policies--such as Taiwan and Singapore--have grown much faster than those in Latin America and Africa that once tried to shelter behind tariff walls. Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade Representative, recently said, "Trade is a critical element--perhaps the most important element--in economic development, offering the biggest and most lasting dividends...
Last Wednesday, President George W. Bush announced that he would nominate Robert B. Zoellick, a Harvard Law School (HLS) and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) graduate, to be the World Bank’s 11th president, succeeding Paul Wolfowitz in the position. His nomination is subject to approval by the Bank’s Board of Governors, who are appointed to five-year terms by the Bank’s member countries. “Bob Zoellick has had a long and distinguished career in diplomacy and development economics,” said the President in a press conference last...
...Once described as having 20 IQ points on everyone else in Washington, Zoellick is widely regarded as brilliant, extremely hard-working, frequently difficult to work with and keenly interested in politics. He started in the Reagan era as a prot?g? of Jim Baker's at the Treasury Department and followed Baker to the State Department during the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush. During those four years, Zoellick was a behind-the-scenes architect for the reunification of Germany, the expansion of NATO and many of the complex negotiations that attended the end of the Cold...
...Under Bush 2, he served first as U.S. Trade Representative and then Deputy Secretary of State, working on international trade negotiations for months on end and later on the crisis in Darfur. It was an open secret that Zoellick always wanted to be Treasury Secretary, and when it became clear that he was unlikely to get the position, he left government last year and went to work for Goldman Sachs in New York. During his year at Goldman Sachs, Zoellick kept a real-time watch on a wide variety of events in Washington and served as a foreign policy adviser...
...World Bank boss, Zoellick will have a chance to mix with every finance and foreign minister in the world, including America's own. And then there is the matter of running the World Bank. Even before Wolfowitz , embroiled in a scandal over his role in finding a new job for a World Bank employee with whom he had a close relationship, lost the confidence of the Bank's vast bureaucracy, the Bank was struggling to both justify the need for a multinational lending institution sponsoring big public projects in an era in dotted with increasingly effective non-governmental organizations...