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Hope is a moral choice.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
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Choice
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Many people could benefit from meditation.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Meditation
Benefit
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We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.
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Inspiring
Challenges
Needs
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There will be water and food fights everywhere.
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Business
Fighting
Water
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I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.
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Engaged
Programmes
Protection
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We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Climate
Climate Change
Ends
Poverty
Change Will Never
Change Climate Will
Tackle
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World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
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Economic Development
Focused
Poverty
World Bank
Bank
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I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.
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Meditation
Patient
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Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.
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Climate
Teeth
Water
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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Passion
Thinking
World
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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Poverty
World Bank
Bank
Eradicate
Tremendous
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The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
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Meditation
Fundamentally
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We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Business
Growth
Thinking
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Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Champion
Kind
Sanitation
Water
Education Health Water
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Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Haiti
Haitian
Privileged
Benefit
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Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Challenges
Energy
Poverty
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When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Choices
Issues
Optimism
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Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.
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Growth
Long
People
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One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Leadership
Humility
Important
Important Things
Kind
Allow
Coached
The Most Important
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In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
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Expectancy
Life Expectancy
Native
Life Great Face
Crises
Native Americans
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The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
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Carbon
Climate Change
Currency
Related
Teeth
Change Water Climate
Critically
People Say
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I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
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Economic Development
Invest
Communities
Entire Life
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Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?
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Care
Execution
Goal
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Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
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Backwards
Changed
Excluded
Forever
Poor
Social Media
World Social Media People
Accept
Anymore
World People Media
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A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.
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Differences
People
Thinking
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Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
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Complicated
Development
Discipline
Economic
Economic Development
Poverty
Single
Sufficient
Background
Problems
Tackle
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We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.
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Ocean
Temperature
Things Happen
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If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.
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Majority
Poverty
Private Sector
Protection
Creates
Vast
Sector
Vast Majority
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A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'
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Committed
Change World Look
Change World I Am
Change The World
Change Look World
Make A Difference
Souls
Young People
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What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.
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Access
No Idea
Erupt
Everyone Else
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Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.
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Hiv
Settings
Complex
Long Run
Required
Tb
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One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
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Mood
Work Face Look
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If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it's very simple: because there's a market in the United States and Europe.
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Disease
Europe
Hiv
Tuberculosis
United States
Good Simple Look
Good Look Simple
Major
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If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.
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Children
Climate
Suffering
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My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Died
North Korean
Refugee
Seventeen
Time Mother Father
Border
Brothers
Sisters
North
Relatives
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What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Children
Corn
Impact
Malnutrition
Real
Short Term
Wheat
Rise
Increases
Prices
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One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.
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Advice
Lessons
Seat
Emphasizing
Great Leaders
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Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
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Clear
Discrimination
Evidence
Participating
Workforce
Economies
Enact
Fully
Widespread
Institutionalized
Societies
Prevent
Suffer
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Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.
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Opportunity
Country
People
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Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.
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Critical
Excluded
Poorest
Poverty
Creates
Economic System
Good Jobs
Young People
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What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.
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Data
Decision Making
Making Decisions
Medicine
Work Your Me
Work Look Me
Patients
Physician
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I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.
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Faces
Organizational
Staff
Structure
World Bank
Asset
Bank
Greatest Asset
No Question
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No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
Jim Yong Kim / Physician
Jobs
Good
Feedback
Goodness
Humility
Ideas
Leader
Matter
People
Thinking
Everybody
Most
Will
Job
Because
Thing
Me
Get
Leadership Good Me
Around
Try
Continue
How
Else
Everybody Else
Fundamental
Help
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