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19 Jun 2013, 1:46 pm by WIMS
    World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said, "This new report outlines an alarming scenario for the days and years ahead -- what we could face in our lifetime. [read post]
19 Nov 2012, 12:35 pm by WIMS
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said, "A 4 degree warmer world can, and must be, avoided -- we need to hold warming below 2 degrees. [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]
10 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
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]
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]
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]
3 Apr 2017, 11:22 am
Farmer, Paul, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, eds. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 4:45 pm
Farmer, Paul, Jim Yong Kim, Arthur Kleinman, and Matthew Basilico, eds. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 12:24 am by Nathan McMurray
If you applaud Jim Yong Kim, you should applaud Lee Jasmine as well. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 9:30 pm by Jacqueline Best
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]
27 Mar 2020, 2:49 am by Shannon O'Hare
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]
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]
25 Apr 2013, 2:46 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Jim Yong Kim highlighted the global growth power of emerging nations.Panelists included: Cao Can, CEO of Shengya Capital; Luca Silipo, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis Bank; and Larry Cata Backer, Professor of Law and International Affairs at the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University. [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]
3 Apr 2020, 12:00 am by David Kopel
Jim Geraghty, The Comprehensive Timeline of China's COVID-19 Lies, National Review Online, Mar. 23, 2020. [read post]