Bank: Waiting for Real Leadership

摘要

Last year the appointment of Jim Yong Kim by President Obama to be the new president of the World Bank aroused hope that finally the bank would have a leader committed to promoting environmentally friendly, pro-poor development not just in rhetoric, but in action. In contrast to the finance background of previous bank presidents, Kim is a physician and anthropologist who co-founded Partners in Health, the innovative non-profit that has worked to treat HIV and resistant strains of tuberculosis. In 2000 Kim co-edited a forceful indictment, "Dying for Growth," of the disastrous impacts on public health of what he claimed were the neoliberal, pro-corporate economic globalization policies of the World Bank and other international financial institutions.