Jim Yong Kim

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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… Able
• 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… All
• We need to have a plan equal to the challenge. Challenge
• We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change. Change
• Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them. Both
• 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… Care
• 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… Bad
• 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. Allow
• 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… Able
• Hope is a moral choice. Choice
• The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. Amygdala
• Many people could benefit from meditation. Benefit
• 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. American
• The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth. Carbon
• Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. Champion
• 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… Access
• 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… Affected

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