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VIDEO: World Bank chief sees end to poverty
2013-04-04 23:14:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Jim Yong Kim is urging direct action to help more than a billion people benefit from growth.
World Bank chief: global poverty bigger challenge than action on HIV
2013-04-04 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The president of the World Bank has warned that ending the worst of global poverty within a generation would prove a tougher challenge than tackling Aids, as he urged direct action to help more than a billion people benefit from growth. Jim Yong Kim, the former health activist chosen by Barack Obama to lead the Washington-based institution, said the goal of reducing the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day from 21% to 3% by 2030 was achievable but "extraordinarily difficult". Interviewed...
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World Banks Kim Vows Climate-Change Focus to Help Ease Poverty
2013-04-02 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim vowed to boost the lenders contribution to easing the effects of climate change as part of a new goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. Helping mitigate shocks, including those caused by global warming, is one of the conditions needed to reach the poverty reduction target, Kim said in a speech at Georgetown University in Washington today. Also required is sustained fast growth in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and reduced income inequality, he said. ...
World Bank chief calls for ending extreme poverty by 2030
2013-04-02 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday called for a commitment by the international community to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people living in developing countries. To reach that goal, Kim said the world would have to reduce the number of people living below the poverty line of $1.25 per day to 3 percent globally by 2030, and raise the per capita incomes of the bottom 40 percent of every developing country. The 3 percent target marks a new...
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Third World poverty is on the run
2013-03-22 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Here's a forecast that brought me up short this week. Within 20 years, on present trends, dire poverty will have been eliminated in Bangladesh -- and others among the world's poorest countries. It seems incredible. The South Asian nation -- the most densely populated sizeable country on earth -- had long been written off. But the prediction is based on exhaustive, if pioneering, Oxford University research and backed up by other authoritative reports. In a study published this month, covering...
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