World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Resigns

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim abruptly announced his resignation on Monday after six years of leading the global lender. Kim, an American, will step down on February 1, several years before his term officially ends. Kim is a physician and anthropologist who previously ran projects to fight tuberculosis and AIDS in some of the world's poorest nations. He was the first person to head the bank who had direct experience on the front lines of fighting poverty and the first who did...

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