NEW WORLD BANK CHIEF JIM YONG KIM IN AFRICA... “They Said Poverty Would Always Be With Us. Well, Maybe Not” Monday"s Interview: The World Bank chief remains an outsider with big ambitions... It is an unlikely mode for a saviour. Middle-aged, suited and bespectacled, staring out from a billboard erected over the warren of slums that surround Kinshasa, the chaotic capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC - Africa). The face is that of Jim Yong Kim, the first man from outside the discipline of economics to take the helm at the World Bank, an institution many observers have accused of lacking purpose. Having just celebrated his first year in charge, the Korean-American medical expert has refocused the world’s premier development bank on ending extreme poverty. (continued >>>) goldenageofgaia/2013/07/world-bank-chief-jim-yong-kim-they-said-poverty-would-always-be-with-us-well-maybe-not/
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