World Bank chief tells Stanford audience that ending extreme poverty is possible (Stanford University)

(Source: Stanford University) Stanford Report, November 3, 2015 World Bank leader Jim Yong Kim spoke at Stanford last Thursday, urging students and faculty to continue their efforts to eliminate poverty and improve public health globally. By Beth Duff-Brown Stanford students belong to the first generation that could witness the end of extreme global poverty - in what would be one of humankind's greatest achievements - the head of the World Bank said during an Oct. 29 talk on campus. L.A. Cicero Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, speaks at last week's conference of the Stanford Global Development and Poverty Initiative. But their generation, he said, is also likely to experience the...