EXTREME POVERTY - World Bank's Goal

Considering the world's population growth AND the shrinking of usable land due to Climate Change, my comment is "good luck" with this.

"World Bank Announces Goal to End Extreme Poverty by 2030" PBS Newshour 4/18/2013

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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour):  ..... ending extreme poverty around the world by 2030.  That's the ambitious goal announced by World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, as his organization and the International Monetary Fund begin their annual spring meetings with delegates from around the globe.

The World Bank has come under strong criticism at various times since its founding in 1944, including, as it happens, by Kim himself.  An American born in South Korea, Kim is a doctor, a leading global health advocate and winner of a so-called MacArthur genius grant.  In the late 1980s, he demonstrated against World Bank policies, even calling for its end.

Last year, picked by President Obama, he became the bank's chief, after serving as president of Dartmouth College since 2009.

I talked with Dr. Kim at World Bank headquarters in Washington this morning and began by asking what's new in his goal of attacking poverty.