Ajay Banga is off to a great start on his first day (Al Gore on Twitter)

[Uncle Joe]

Link to tweet

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank's new president Ajay Banga on Friday asked the lender's 16,000 staff to "double down" on development and climate efforts as he seeks to accelerate the bank's evolution to tackle the most pressing global problems.

On his first day in the job, the former Mastercard CEO told staff in a memo seen by Reuters that he would seek to recruit each of them to work towards his vision "to create a world free from poverty on a livable planet."

"Making good on our ambition will require us to evolve to maximize resources and write a new playbook, to think creatively, take informed risks and forge new partnerships with civil society and multilateral institutions," Banga wrote.

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Yellen last year began pressing the World Bank and other multilateral lenders to revamp their business models and dramatically scale up lending resources to address climate change, pandemics, food security and other global crises.

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https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-06-02/world-banks-new-chief-asks-staff-to-double-down-on-development-climate-efforts

[Kid Berwyn]

1. These are the wealthiest times in history.

Yet we wouldn’t know that listening to the media or politicians the wealthy own.

Good luck to Ajay Bangda. The planet needs him.

[Uncle Joe]

2. +1

[2naSalit]

3. Hopefully this starts a trend...

And real soon.