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The End of Poverty? The World Bank and the Shared Prosperity Agenda
2013-04-26 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Within our lifetimes, the world could be free of widespread, extreme poverty, replaced instead with shared prosperity and environmental and fiscal balance. That was the vision World Bank President Jim Yong Kim outlined at his first Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. last week. In a period of economic uncertainty, social exclusion, and climate and environmental crises, these goals hold immense promise. At the same time, for an institution already grappling with its redefined role in the coming...
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