Dr. Jim Yong Kim: a pro-child banker

In 1994 when he treated tuberculosis patients in Peru, Dr. Jim Yong Kim blamed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s and the World Bank’s austerity measures for worsening poverty and epidemics. While posted at the World Health Organization, he sought to provide even the poorest AIDS patients wit...

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