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Jim Yong Kim

January 2019

  • Larry Elliott

    Viewpoint column
    Car sales chuff along even as Brexit doom dents big-ticket spending

    Larry Elliott
  • Jim Yong Kim

    Jim Yong Kim resigns as World Bank president

December 2018

  • Cyclone damage at Shute Harbour in Queensland, Australia

    World Bank to invest $200bn to combat climate change

    Sum available for 2021-25 represents doubling of current five-year plan

April 2017

  • Jim Kim

    World Bank chief echoes Bill Gates's warning to Theresa May on aid

  • World Bank president Jim Yong Kim at a news conference in Berlin.

    Developing nations' demands for better life must be met, says World Bank head

October 2016

  • A coal-fired power plant

    World Bank says Paris climate goals at risk from new coal schemes

  • Jim Yong Kim

    IMF and World Bank launch defence of open markets and free trade

  • In this April 20, 2015 photo, siblings Piero, Ariana and Priscila eat a lunch of fish, bananas and rice as their parents sell fish at a street market in Belen, a neighborhood nicknamed Venice of the Jungle in Iquitos, Peru. According to official statistics, 40 percent of the children in Belen suffer from malnutrition and 66 percent of the entire population is poor. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

    Poverty matters
    World Bank issues warning on stunting in children, but points to Peru's success

  • a man passes the 2016 Annual Meetings sign at the IMF offices

    World Bank renews drive against inequality

September 2016

  • IDPs in South Sudan

    Number of people displaced by conflict 'equivalent to UK population of 65m'

    Report by World Bank and UN highlights the scale and economic impact of displacement caused by conflict worldwide

August 2016

  • World Bank president Jim Yong Kim at a child and mother care centre in New Delhi, India, June 2016.

    The long read
    How the World Bank’s biggest critic became its president

    The Long Read: After years of working with the poor, Jim Yong Kim thought he could lead the World Bank to fight global suffering. Then the organisation turned against him

July 2016

  • World Bank president Jim Yong Kim

    Escalation of Ebola crisis could have been avoided, says World Bank president

    Jim Yong Kim points finger at funding delay and hails launch of pandemic financing facility as opportunity to ensure past mistakes are not repeated

April 2016

  • A banner announces the 2016 spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank

    Demand for World Bank loans nears crisis levels

    Lending forecast at £25bn for 2016 as developing countries struggle to cope with weakening global economy

January 2016

  • Ban Ki-moon speaks at a press conference ahead of the launch of the UN’s report on humanitarian financing in Dubai.

    Water in development
    Ban Ki-moon gathers heads of state for political response to water scarcity

    A high-level panel announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos is expected to develop a practical plan for tackling water scarcity

December 2015

  • Jim Yong Kim President of the World Bank

    World Bank president celebrates 'game changer' Paris talks

    Jim Yong Kim joins host of powerful figures lauding ‘extraordinary’ talks undertaken in French capital

November 2015

  • CHINA EDUCATION AIDS POVERTY<br>epa00872670 Children of the Yi ethnic minority group sit on their classroom floor during a lesson because their impoverished school can't afford enough chairs and desks, rural Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China, Tuesday 28 November 2006. A disproportionate number of China's Yi people are susceptible to drug addiction and HIV as a result of extreme poverty and lack of eduction. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

    The best news in the world: we have made real progress towards ending extreme poverty

    Jim Yong Kim
    To achieve our aim of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 investment in health and education, and in the collection of robust data, must be our priorities

October 2015

  • Jim Yong Kim

    World Bank pledges extra $29bn to poorer nations for climate change fight

  • A woman holds a child as migrants arrive at the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey

    Migration can help to forge a more prosperous world, says World Bank

April 2015

  • A file photo taken on February 5, 2015 shows women from the coal dust covered and power line pollution exposed Masakhane settlement filling their wheel barrows for a load of free coal provided by a nearby mine in Emalahleni. The Masakhane settlement, mainly consisting of migrant workers who converged to the coal rich Witbank region to search for job opportunities, has no access to the electricity grid, despite being only two kilometres away from the Duvha power station belonging to the embattled South African sole energy provider Eskom, and despite being criss-crossed by high tension power lines.

    Keep it in the ground
    World Bank fossil fuel financing leapt in 2014 despite its calls to end subsidies

  • Jim Yong Kim

    World Bank's Jim Kim: global slowdown will harm anti-poverty drive

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