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Jim Yong Kim

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

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.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

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.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

World Bank is a bank that’s focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn’t happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there’s a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

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.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

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.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

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.

– Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

I like to change people’s sense of what’s possible.

– Jim Yong Kim

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