We’ve collected the best Jim Yong Kim Quotes. Use them as an inspiration.
1
2
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there’s a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.
11
12
13
14
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.
15
The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
16
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.
17
Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
18