: With Banga nomination, top World Bank positions to held by Sikhs #IndiaNEWS #International Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) With US President Joe Biden nominating Ajay Banga, the former Indian American head

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With Banga nomination, top World Bank positions to held by Sikhs #IndiaNEWS #International
Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) With US President Joe Biden nominating Ajay Banga, the former Indian American head of Mastercard, to head the World Bank, the top posts in the global financial institution will be held by Sikhs.
Before Banga, who is slated to take up job which, by convention, been reserved for a US citizen this May, the World Bank already as a Sikh in a top post, with Indermit Singh Gill its Chief Economist.
He is primarily known for pioneering the concept of the middle-income trap to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income.
Gill, an Indian citizen, studied at St Pauls School, Darjeeling and St. Stephens College, Delhi where he was probably just a year (or perhaps two) junior to Banga.
Like Banga, Gill is also the son of a senior Indian Army officer.
Before taking over Chief Economist on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Banks Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, where he played a key role in shaping its response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institutions Global Economy and Development program.
Widely regarded for his contributions to development economics, Gill spearheaded the influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography, as per his World Bank profile. He has published extensively on key policy issues facing developing countries — among other things, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, green growth and natural-resource wealth, labour markets, and poverty and inequality.
Gill has also taught at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago
Bidens nomination of Banga follows his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama nominating Korean-American Jim Yong Kim for World Bank chief to ensure that the World Bank is headed by someone with a developing-country background
Biden was then Vice President.
If confirmed by the World Bank Board, Bang will be the first person of Indian descent to head the World Bank. He will succeed David Malpass, who was appointed to head the bank by then President Donald Trump.
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