Yong Kim
Yong Kim
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.
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.
crises great life native states united
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.
bank
World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
bad economies evidence fully people prevent societies widespread
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.
patient
I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.
change
I like to change people's sense of what's possible.
carbon change climate critically currency issue people related
The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
creates economic economies excluded good growing poorest poverty unless ways women
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.
complex everybody health hiv poor required run
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.