Jim Yong Kim

The lack of top African economists in the World Bank's restructuring prompted a strong critique from its African governors and a half-hearted response from its President Jim Yong Kim (AC Vol 53 No 21 Changing tribal customs on J Street)...

In December 2013 World Bank President Jim Yong Kim himself of South Korean origin urged Korean companies to engage with Africa for the sake of their own growth and of Africa's sustainable development...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim have already given their backing to the target of ending all extreme poverty by 2030...

The continent's best hopes may be for the World Bank's Jim Yong Kim to translate his environmental enthusiasms into sustainable projects and programmes in Africa...

The newish chiefs – the United States' Jim Yong Kim took over as President of the Bank in mid-2012 and France's former Finance Minister Christine Lagarde took over at the Fund a year earlier – spelt out fresh plans to counter climate change reform tax systems and reduce inequality at their annual meetings in Washington on 11-13 October...

Both World Bank President Jim Yong Kim a strong critic of coal-fired power stations and the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon endorsed the Inga plans in principle when they visited Congo together in late May...

The former bastion of the ‘Washington Consensus’ the World Bank is currently headed by Jim Yong Kim who was born in South Korea a country with a record of successful industrial policies; Kim is known to be sceptical about untrammelled free market prescriptions...

In the presence of almost every UN organisation World Bank Director Jim Yong Kim a plethora of development and commercial banks Middle East development funds (Kuwait and Qatar among others) and the IMF Ouattara outlined the progress made...

Brave talk about Africa’s rising economic momentum and hopes for more innovative development ideas from new World Bank President Jim Yong Kim were among the few bright spots of the meeting...

An anthropoligist and medical doctor the new World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is putting his training to pratical use: ‘There is a piece of paper up on the wall of my Managing Director Caroline Anstey’s office which she calls the Spaghetti Diagram – it shows all the departments and processes that a decision has to go through at the Bank before approval...

Incoming President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim has two bulky Africa dossiers in his in-tray after seeing off – thanks to solid backing from the United States and Europe – his Nigerian challenger Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...