by Paul Romer leaves the World Bank Outspoken chief economist Paul Romer is leaving the World Bank “effective immediately” after just 15 months on the job, the bank’s president told staff on Wednesday in an internal announcement seen by the Financial Times. Mr Romer, one of the US’s most celebrated economists, had been engaged in a running battle with staff economists at the bank almost since his high-profile arrival in October 2016. Areas of dispute have included everything from Mr Romer’s diktats on grammar and brevity in reports to serious questions about methodology … In a message to staff sent on Wednesday, Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank’s president, said Mr Romer had told him he had decided to step down and return to his position as a professor at New
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Paul Romer leaves the World Bank
Outspoken chief economist Paul Romer is leaving the World Bank “effective immediately” after just 15 months on the job, the bank’s president told staff on Wednesday in an internal announcement seen by the Financial Times.
Mr Romer, one of the US’s most celebrated economists, had been engaged in a running battle with staff economists at the bank almost since his high-profile arrival in October 2016. Areas of dispute have included everything from Mr Romer’s diktats on grammar and brevity in reports to serious questions about methodology …
In a message to staff sent on Wednesday, Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank’s president, said Mr Romer had told him he had decided to step down and return to his position as a professor at New York University.