TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kim,Jim Yong
AU  - Kim,Jim Yong
TI  - Speech at World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings Plenary, Washington, D.C., October 11, 2013
T2  - Speeches of World Bank Presidents
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Access to Finance
KW  - Capital
KW  - Children
KW  - Climate
KW  - Climate Change
KW  - Credit
KW  - Currencies
KW  - Debt
KW  - Default
KW  - Developing Countries
KW  - Education
KW  - Federal Reserve
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Financial Stability
KW  - Food Production
KW  - Global Economy
KW  - Governance
KW  - Health Care Costs
KW  - Immunizations
KW  - Insurance
KW  - Interest Rates
KW  - International Governmental Organizations
KW  - Knowledge for Development
KW  - Loans
KW  - Low-Income Countries
KW  - Middle-Income Countries
KW  - Natural Gas
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Public Sector Development
KW  - Public Sector Management and Reform
KW  - Savings
KW  - Women
N2  - Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discusses the state of the global economy, and lessons drawn to the future of the World Bank Group. He mentioned strengthening Group financial discipline to become more efficient and to grow revenues. He promises that the World Bank Group will openly share our knowledge and experience with all 188 member countries, the private sector, and civil society. He wants to create a culture that retains the most motivated and talented people and attracts the best and brightest to the World Bank Group. He believes to chart a path toward universal financial access by bringing together multiple approaches and technologies. He promises to reduce transaction times by a third from conception of a project to first disbursement of funds. He concludes by saying that, working together with governments and development partners, have helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/24346
ER  -