Jim Yong Kim Quotes

If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it’s very simple: because there’s a market in the United States and Europe.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there’s a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn’t happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

I’ve always been engaged in social protection programmes.

One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it’s only people who‘ve been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Many people could benefit from meditation.

Haiti‘s economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

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.

World Bank is a bank that’s focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

We will never end poverty if we don’t tackle climate change.

I feel like I’m calmer, I’m kinder, I’m more patient the more I do my own meditation.

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.

The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

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.

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.

Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What’s going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.