Bono and World Bank President Talk Next Steps to End Poverty

Bono joined  World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim in a conversation on how to end world poverty, drawing on ideas crowdsourced from social media.



Jim Yong Kim: “We can find a path to ending poverty sooner than 25 years” 

Bono: “I’ve learned to talk abt diversity of African continent rather than overdramatizing, generalizing” 

Bono: “Open data and transparency will turbocharge ending extreme poverty.” 

Bono : “We know there are going to be cuts … but not cuts that cost lives.” 

Jim Yong Kim: “It’s amazing that we seem to have to relearn the importance of putting women at center of development again & again” 

Bono: “If my father was alive it would make him smile: I want to work for the World Bank!” 

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