Jim Yong Kim: Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life?
金墉: 每个人都应有生活得更好的机会
Jim Yong Kim is leading a global effort to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
over the last five years
countries in the world.
I see all the time everywhere,
are looking at a smartphone,
in even the poorest countries.
all over the world.
that there's a convergence of aspirations.
to actually look into this.
all around the world?
about satisfaction in life
that if you have access to the internet,
that's very important:
of a nation, for example,
have to go up at least five percent
level of satisfaction.
into the lower percentiles of income,
goes up 10 percent,
are linked to opportunity
in the country I was born in, in Korea?
going to meet frustration?
because between 2012 and 2015,
increased by 74 percent.
went up 150 percent.
of fragility, conflict, violence,
of the world's poor
of fragility, conflict and violence.
about meeting these aspirations?
to meet these aspirations?
I'm extremely worried.
because of access to the internet.
my own personal story.
scholarships to go to New York City.
and got married in New York City.
in the northern part of the country,
and living in New York,
at Patricia Murphy's restaurant.
to live in a place like New York City
and they came back to Korea,
as kind of an idyllic life,
in Korea at that time
of the poorest in the world
the street from our house all the time,
against the military government.
the organization I lead now,
find it difficult without foreign aid
than the bare necessities of life.
Korea is in a tough position,
what life is like in the United States.
My brother was born there.
to give us an opportunity
to the United States.
all over again.
moving to Iowa, of all places.
through the whole course.
something that I'll never forget,
after my sophomore year in college,
what are your aspirations?
What do you want to do?"
and had filled us with ideas
political science and philosophy,
part of a political movement."
over to the side of the road --
you can study anything you want."
to a mostly Asian audience before.
my father died at a young age,
of my medical and graduate studies --
by doing medicine and anthropology.
I met these two people,
getting our PhD's in anthropology.
some pretty fundamental questions.
of studying medicine and anthropology --
in a bus in a swamp in Florida.
elaborate educations,
of our responsibility to the world?
to start an organization.
there's a movie made about that.
that was just a brilliant movie
called "Bending the Arc."
who made it happen.
about what it would take for us
reach the level
communities in the world.
to Haiti in 1988,
a sort of mission statement,
a preferential option for the poor
were graduate students in anthropology.
and down the other.
of how are we going to structure our work?
about a preferential option for the poor
for your own sense of heroism.
how to lift the poor out of poverty.
for your own organization.
for your poor.
and maybe a feeding program.
was a hospital.
with the opportunities
from others, relatives, for example,
of opportunities as my parents did.
We built hospitals.
to try to give them opportunities.
in this community, Carabayllo,
to people's homes and talking to people,
of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
he was about 18 years old,
of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
the global health gurus,
to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
they were getting angry at us,
we would have done it.
were the World Health Organization
we fought with most
to take his medicines,
did Melquiades's family ever say,
is just not cost-effective.
and treat somebody else?"
for about 10 years
our annual meetings in Lima, Peru
because he goes to the film openings,
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis --
in the early 2000s about HIV.
people in the world said
to treat HIV in poor countries.
you can't do it.
that he was not cost-effective.
and this is what he looked like.
of HIV treatment.
a few months later.
that kept saying it's not cost-effective.
requires us to raise our aspirations
but it's just not cost-effective.
that we have operated Partners in Health,
basically, the World Bank.
on just economic growth
have to shrink their budgets
in health, education and social welfare --
to be President of the World Bank.
with President Obama's team,
and they had read every page.
of the World Bank Group in July of 2012,
"Our dream is a world free of poverty."
we actually turned it into a goal:
at the World Bank Group.
the preferential option for the poor
with you some concerns,
so much better than I do,
You've all heard that.
that two thirds of all jobs,
in developing countries,
to make up for those jobs
into a formal labor force.
and as people have formal work,
that you add to it
that will have a huge impact,
that grows the most.
that bothers me:
that the jobs of the future
in childhood stunting.
who shared these with us
on the one side, on the left side,
not adequate stimulation.
of course, is a normal child,
has all of these neuronal connections.
are important,
the definition of human capital.
can reduce these rates.
of childhood stunting quickly,
with 38 percent childhood stunting,
in the economy of the future
cannot achieve educationally
about achieving economically
the country as a whole grow.
is the size of the global economy.
in negative interest rate bonds.
the German central bank your money
in very low-earning government bonds.
in the hands of rich people
is now use our own tools --
first-loss risk debt instruments,
blended finance,
political risk insurance,
at the World Bank Group
to make themselves richer,
on behalf of the poor
private-sector players into a country
from the World Bank
and we do all the things you need
from having a cost of electricity
doing the auction,
a kilowatt-hour. It's possible.
literally are rocket scientists.
how to use drones in Rwanda.
anywhere in the country
huge amounts of money for Rwanda.
and we need that from all of you.
a little bit of time in your brains
that you work on,
the design that you do.
of extraordinary win-win solutions.
with one final story.
and I was in a classroom.
of 11-year-olds.
of the World Bank."
and their teachers laughed.
this is what it looked like.
the President of the World Bank,
and come to my classroom,
of the World Bank
President of the World Bank.
that was the poorest in the world.
pull up the ladder behind me.
those Zipline-type solutions
leapfrog into a better world,
until we work together.
and especially for your children --
and compassion we bring
provides equality of opportunity
to hear a talk like this
a little more specific on your proposal.
entrepreneurs in this room.
What's your proposal?
for just a second.
JYK: So here's what we did.
金墉:这是我们所做的,
in developing country infrastructure,
they can't take the risk.
for people who pay for insurance.
International Development Association
more money, a hundred million,
meaning if this thing goes bad,
a 90-percent chunk, tranche
so the insurance companies invested.
is taking our public money
specific instruments
on trillions of dollars of cash,
looking for are investment proposals
in the developing world.
in infrastructure that brings energy,
are necessary to create jobs,
you're working on
in the developing world,
of the technology.
with the Rwandans early
completely on their own.
We will make the introductions.
We will help you do that.
is the World Bank willing to deploy
to try to do something like this.
JYK: So here's what we're going to do.
金墉:这正是我们要做的
that we're investing in poor countries,
over the next three years,
more effectively.
It depends on the quality of the ideas.
is going to be the problem.
from the man himself.
JYK: Thank you. Thank you.
金墉:谢谢!谢谢!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jim Yong Kim - President, World Bank GroupJim Yong Kim is leading a global effort to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.
Why you should listen
Jim Yong Kim is the 12th president of the World Bank Group. Soon after he assumed his position in July 2012, the organization established two goals to guide its work: to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to boost shared prosperity, focusing on the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries. In September 2016, the World Bank Group Board unanimously reappointed Kim to a second five-year term as president.
During his first term, the World Bank Group supported the development priorities of countries at levels never seen outside a financial crisis and, with its partners, achieved two successive, record replenishments of the World Bank Group’s fund for the poorest. The institution also launched several innovative financial instruments, including facilities to address infrastructure needs, prevent pandemics and help the millions of people forcibly displaced from their homes by climate shocks, conflict, and violence.
Kim's career has revolved around health, education and delivering services to the poor. In 1987, he co-founded Partners In Health, a nonprofit medical organization that works in poor communities on four continents. He has received a MacArthur "genius" grant, was recognized as one of America's "25 Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report and was named one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World.
Jim Yong Kim | Speaker | TED.com