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16 Jun 2023, 4:00 am
From the Washington Post, June 2, 2023 In February 2014, Jim Yong Kim, then-president of the World Bank, received calls from Rep. [read post]
18 Sep 2021, 11:59 am
The changes to China’s data in Doing Business 2018 appear to be the product of two distinct types of pressure applied by Bank leadership on the Doing Business team: (1) pressure—both direct and indirect—applied by senior staff in the Office of the President, presumably at the direction of President Kim, to change the report’s methodology in an effort to boost China’s score; and (2) pressure applied by CEO Georgieva and her advisor, Mr. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 7:03 am
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Farmer, Paul, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, eds. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 5:51 am
Fineberg, Jim Yong Kim, and Jordan Shlain in the NYT. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 12:00 am
Jim Geraghty, The Comprehensive Timeline of China's COVID-19 Lies, National Review Online, Mar. 23, 2020. [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 2:49 am
Hailed at their launch by former World Bank President Jim Yong Kim as a “momentous step”, pandemic bonds are designed to pre-fund the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (“PEF“). [read post]
20 Feb 2020, 6:31 am
In a prior post (here) we passed along a call for written inputs circulated by the Working Group for Business and Human Rights to be considered by the Working Group in the preparation of its Report on the theme "Connecting the business and human rights and anti-corruption agendas. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced his resignation as head of the World Bank Group (WBG), which lends capital to national governments. [read post]
31 Jan 2018, 8:12 pm
The World Bank Group is accelerating its effort to help countries invest more – and more effectively – in their people,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 2:04 pm
Ivanka, along with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Merkel, helped launch the World Bank-backed program that will promote women's entrepreneurship in developing countries. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 4:45 pm
Farmer, Paul, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, eds. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 11:22 am
Farmer, Paul, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, eds. [read post]
20 Aug 2016, 7:01 pm
“Depressed commodity prices have slowed growth sharply in commodity-exporting emerging and developing economies, which are home to more than half the global poor,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, “Economic growth remains the most important driver of poverty reduction. [read post]
24 Apr 2016, 5:37 pm
World Bank – “Ten leaders, including Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, have laid out goals in a joint vision statement to expand carbon pricing to cover 25 percent of global emissions by 2020, and achieve 50 percent coverage within the next decade. [read post]
22 Jul 2015, 6:37 am
The Panel will advise World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and his senior management team on strategies to achieve a diverse and inclusive workplace; provide guidance on how to address challenges affecting WBG’s diversity and inclusion efforts; and add an external perspective to enhance the strategies and views of the WBG’s internal Council on Diversity and Inclusion. [read post]
14 Jun 2015, 3:10 pm
“Developing countries were an engine of global growth following the financial crisis, but now they face a more difficult economic environment,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 12:36 am
For some time I have been writing on the critical need to establish an interpretive mechanism for the development of an authoritative gloss of the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights grounded in application of the UNGP to actual disputes. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 8:29 pm
Amid the delegates rushing in and out, the Bank is expected to discuss a number of organizational changes ushered in by President Jim Yong Kim. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 10:29 am
Amid the delegates rushing in and out, the Bank is expected to discuss a number of organizational changes ushered in by President Jim Yong Kim. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 9:30 pm
The World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, has adopted the idea of Fail Faires from the information technology industry, where policymakers share their biggest failures with one another. [read post]
