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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.

Representatives of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have gathered in Washington. World Bank President（慢读里，bank应该弱读，因为三个实义单词在一起，中间的单词应该弱读,你的下一个这个词组读的很好） Robert Zoelick spoke to them on Thursday. This is the last time he attends the spring meetings of the two organizations as World Bank president. Earlier this week, Jim Yong Kim was officially（正常语速里，ci 读的off了，似乎舌头有点平了。） chosen as the bank’s twelfth president.

Mr. Zoellick said developing countries are now engines of growth.

“Developing countries have provided two thirds of global growth over the past five years,” he said. But he added that many developing nations still face big problems.（big problem在一起时，一般情况下，problem重读，big轻读，因为big是形容词。） He said all members need to work together “for their common interest.”