Yong Kim
Yong Kim
long people growth
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.
challenges poverty defining
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
issues optimism choices
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.
passion thinking world
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
business thinking growth
We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist
business fighting water
There will be water and food fights everywhere.
access everybody found huge knows movement next social
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.
great help leadership lessons people point seat worth
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.
background economic great human single sufficient tackle
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.
eradicate tremendous
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
change committed few people
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.'
disease good major market states united
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.
changed excluded people social
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.
evidence hard improve learned medicine physician piece taught work
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.