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  • Scott Anderson

    Weekly Roundup: A Doctor, Anthropologist (and Rapper) at the World Bank

    “It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency.”
    That was President Barack Obama introducing Dr. Jim Yong Kim as the (likely) next president of the World Bank on Friday. As president of Dartmouth University, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) with Paul Farmer and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, Kim - not an economist or banker but an anthropologist and doctor - does break the mold as next the World Bank leader.

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    Education, Health Care
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    poverty alleviation
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