Robert Zoellick announced on February 17 that he would not seek a second mandate as president of the World Bank. Little has been heard since from Washington or Brussels about possible replacements. Does this mean there is some hesitation in the US administration about which American to nominate? Or does it mean that the unwritten convention, allocating the leadership of the IMF and the Bank respectively to Europe and the US, is at last giving way to the idea that the World Bank should be managed by the most qualified person, whatever his or her origin?
羅伯特?佐利克(Robert Zoellick)在2月17日宣布不再尋求連任世界銀行(World Bank)行長職務(wù)。從那以后，華盛頓和布魯塞爾對可能的接替人選都幾乎沒有做出任何表態(tài)。這是否意味著美國政府對提名哪個美國人有些猶豫？還是意味著國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)和世界銀行的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)職務(wù)分別由歐洲人和美國人擔(dān)任的不成文慣例終于開始松動，取而代之的觀點是世界銀行應(yīng)當(dāng)由最有資格的人領(lǐng)導(dǎo)，無論他來自哪個國家？