Publication: A Conversation with Al Jazeera’s Ali Velshi and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim
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2014-04-09
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2014-04-09
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Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discusses how the World Bank is focused on a prosperity that is shared by everyone, and to lift the billion or so people living in extreme poverty out of that condition so that they can have those things that everybody in the world seems to want. He speaks about the inequality in the economic growth of the countries around the world. He highlights the health care and education sectors as essential to improving lives in developing countries. He points to the fact that the time is now to think about positive ways of moving in a direction to grow economies and at the same time, increase the participation of everyone. He talks about how the World Bank Group is working very hard now to reduce bureaucratic processes so that people in the countries feel a difference. He speaks about climate change and the challenges involved in tackling it. He concludes by saying that they're looking at every possible way of investing in people, of spurring innovation.
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“Kim, Jim Yong; Velshi, Ali. 2014. A Conversation with Al Jazeera’s Ali Velshi and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. Interview at IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, Washington, D.C., April 9, 2014;. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24336 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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