Parallel Session 4: Poverty and Inequality of Opportunity
Recent years have seen growing attention to inequality of opportunity and how processes of economic development are shaped by, and in turn shape, such inequalities. One strand of research has been...
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How We’re Taking On Extreme Poverty
Next week, we’ll be hosting our Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., which will attract a few thousand leaders in development from around the world. To set the stage for these meetings, I talked this...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to Tackling Inequality, Start Early
It seems that everyone is talking about inequality these days, and I, for one, am happy to see this issue at the forefront in the development discussion. We can look at inequality in a number of ways,...
View ArticleChina’s Yang Lan Asks How to Help the Have-Nots
Poverty may be falling, but 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty. Inequality is growing everywhere. What is the World Bank Group doing about this? The World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim...
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In Lima, inequality debate focuses on women, youth, and taxes
Can we end extreme poverty in a world with extreme inequality? That question inspired a spirited debate in English and Spanish on Oct. 7, just ahead of the World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings in...
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Income inequality and differential mortality: An ominous combination
It is safe to argue that the issue of income and wealth inequality is nowadays at the center of political debate across the world. Leading intellectuals such as Thomas Piketty in his seminal work,...
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Five TED Talks that inspired me
Jim Yong Kim speaks at TED2017. © Marla Aufmuth/TED This April, I had the honor of delivering a TED Talk in Vancouver, Canada. TED Talks aim to inspire and spread ideas, and this year’s theme – The...
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Canada and the World Bank: Empowering women and girls is the best way to...
A woman tends to plants in a nursery in Sri Lanka. © Lakshman Nadaraja/World BankWe face global challenges on an unprecedented scale: climate change, natural disasters, poverty, water scarcity, food...
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How is your life different from that of your parents?
© You Ji/World Bank Yunus owns a fabric store in Blantyre, Malawi. The store was founded by his grandfather, who immigrated to Malawi in 1927, and has now been in his family for three generations....
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