World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim says one of the quickest ways to end poverty is increasing the ranks of female entrepreneurs. The U.S. should pay attention to the breakthroughs happening ...

Jim Yong Kim, World Bank's former president, is Korean American. The position was newly set up this year as the bank bolstered its efforts to accelerate the economic development of developing ...

Jim Yong Kim was born in 1959 in Korea, one of the poorest countries in the world at the time. His father was a dentist, and when Jim was 5 years old, his family moved to Muscatine, Iowa ...

U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim as head of the World Bank has ...

The economist Jim O’Neill talks with the president of the World Bank, Dr Jim Yong Kim, about globalisation’s winners and losers and how world leaders can ensure its benefits are more evenly ...

The recent 21st Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris has been heralded as a great success. “These 195 countries came to an agreement more ambitions than anyone imagined,” said Jim Yong ...

Former World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has a 5-point plan to defeat COVID-19 Former World Bank president Jim Yong Kim says waiting on a vaccine is wishful thinking. New World Bank Chief Focuses ...

In his meeting with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Jaitley acknowledged the long-standing and mutually beneficial relationship between the World Bank Group and India since its inception and ...