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Jim Yong Kim is Korean-American physician and anthropologist, 12th President of the World Bank. Explore interesting quotes on organ.

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“We think it’s extremely important to have lots of feedback and input from civil society organizations. Something broad like, Does democracy lead to growth? -- these are very difficult questions to answer. It’s almost academic.”

Banker to the Poor, A Conversation With Jim Yong Kim, October, 14

“We’re thinking about other ways we can bring the organizations together. It was always intended that the UN, a political organization focused on justice and development, would work together with the financial organizations in order to make the world a better place.”

UN News Centre, Interview with Jim Yong Kim, 7 October 13

“So the fact that I had worked in more than a dozen countries and have been working for 25 years trying to implement health, education and social protection programmes, I think really helped me inside the World Bank Group and helped me to feel a sense of closeness to our frontline staff. But it’s a complicated organization… I’m still learning… and the ethnography will continue until I’m done with my work at the World Bank Group.”

UN News Centre, Interview with Jim Yong Kim, 7 October 13

“In the private sector, companies have experts running all over the place figuring out the details of how to solve particular problems, and then they share them with the rest of the organization. But in global health, global education, or global development, that’s been really difficult to do.”

Banker to the Poor, A Conversation With Jim Yong Kim, October, 14