Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discusses promoting strong economic growth in developing countries. He speaks about the need to invest in people,especially in education, health and to build social safetynets and protections against both natural disasters andpandemics to ensure that people don't remain trapped inextreme poverty. He talks about the challenges in trying towork in all kinds of complex political situations, so thatwhatever happens to be going on in the political sphere, wecan continue to work to lift people out of poverty and boostshared prosperity.He talks about multilateralism that isalways complicated and is always fraught with disagreements.He promises to continue to try to engage with governmentsto have that impact. He mentioned reports released about the Bank’s resettlement history. The transcript includes the Q&A session.
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