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Nigerian wins key backing for WB job

The World Bank has announced it would conduct interviews with the three candidates to replace the outgoing president Robert Zoellick next week.

The executive board of the bank has to choose between Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank managing director, Jose Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia, and development economist and Jim Yong Kim, a global health expert.

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