Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, also known as Kim Yong, is a South Korean-American physician and anthropologist who has served as the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1, 2012...
NationalitySouth Korean
ProfessionPublic Servant
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Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.
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Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
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I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
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One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
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My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
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Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.
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The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
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The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.
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I like to change people's sense of what's possible.
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I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.
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Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
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World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
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In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.