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Jim Yong Kim

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No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better. Jim Yong Kim

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What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact. Jim Yong Kim

Down Corn Increases See Impact Rise Prices Development Real Affected Brain Malnutrition Wheat Just Children Happens Short-Term Actually

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

Education Health Champion Water Kind Had Global Same Sanitation Even

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. Jim Yong Kim

Health Problem World Long Everybody Settings Complex Run Ability Long Run Look HIV Going Poor Required

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation. Jim Yong Kim

Economic Development World Poverty Focused Economic Development Bank World Bank

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. Jim Yong Kim

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What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions. Jim Yong Kim

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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. Jim Yong Kim

People Evidence Bad Laws Prevent Clear Participating Economies Institutionalized Also Enact Discrimination Workforce Productive Fully Suffer Societies Widespread

Hope is a moral choice. Jim Yong Kim

Hope Moral Choice

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. Jim Yong Kim

Relationship Meditation Changes Between Fundamentally

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation. Jim Yong Kim

Own Patient Meditation Kinder My Own More Feel Like

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians. Jim Yong Kim

Few Benefit Must Haiti Haitian Economy Built Privileged Just Cannot

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.' Jim Yong Kim

Change People World Few Young Think Change The World Tell Look Make Make A Difference Souls Am Lot Committed Difference Young People Really

My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea. Jim Yong Kim

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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. Jim Yong Kim

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I've always been engaged in social protection programmes. Jim Yong Kim

Protection Programmes Always Been Social Engaged

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development. Jim Yong Kim

Life Economic Development Path Down Spent Entire Entire Life Economic Invest Development Move Human Human Beings Them Working Communities Help Beings

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems. Jim Yong Kim

Great Economic Development Complicated Discipline Problems Poverty Single Think Background Tackle Economic Development Human Sufficient

What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt. Jim Yong Kim

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