None
EN
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
[]
News RSS Feed
People ask me all the time, “You’re sitting here facing global poverty, you’re sitting here facing climate change, you’re sitting here trying to think about what to do about some of the poorest communities in the world, how do you retain your optimism?” And so the very first time we did that, he brought all of us together … and he said, “This is a really great time of year because this was the one time of year where my belly was full.” For someone who’s concerned about tackling poverty, if there were a rapprochement between China and Europe and the United States, and we figured out maybe on just one area, [for example] how to tackle poverty in Africa, [and] there was a kind of coming together around projects, or some kind of shared program, that would be so good.