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World Bank warns economic powers: Climate change is real
The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the finance chiefs of the world’s leading economic powers that global warming is a real risk to the planet and already affecting the world economy in unprecedented ways. Adressing the G20 finance ministers at their meeting in Moscow, Jim Yong Kim…
World Bank nominee raps, dreamed of being a star quarterback
Singing rap, citing Buddhist teachings, and once dreaming of being a sports star, the likely next head of the World Bank may not be widely known — but he’s no faceless bureaucrat. Korean-born Jim Yong Kim is the president of Ivy League Dartmouth College, a medical doctor and, above all,…
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