Ending Poverty

Abstract

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, discusses seeking transformative solutions to challenges
 of development and poverty that are necessarily cross
 disciplinary and what a great university should be doing. He
 talks about the investments that developing countries can
 make in the health and education of their people which will
 help reduce extreme poverty in the countries. He speaks
 about the importance of early childhood development. He
 talks about stronger health systems in developing countries
 that can extend the reach of doctors and nurses, and serve
 as disease outbreak alert and response networks critical to
 containing infections. He concludes by saying that the
 pregnant woman who lives in a conflict zone should be
 focused and we must do whatever it takes to support her so
 that her newborn child will have a world of opportunity,
 equal to that of any child in the world.