0 The focus of the World Bank in Africa

The focus of the World Bank in Africa 

The World Bank offers a program to achieve higher economic growth for Africa. In addition, Africa will be invited to alleviate poverty and create jobs, according to the AFP news. 

A visit to Côte d'Ivoire and South Africa is the first visit Jim Yong Kim as people lined up to be the number one at the World Bank. 

Agenda promoted by the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who will travel to Ivory Coast and South Africa at 4-6 September 2012. This is the first visit after didapuk Yong Kim became the number one in the World Bank. 

"Reducing poverty and creating opportunities for people to succeed is essential to the mission of the World Bank Group, and I plan to continue to strengthen our work towards this goal," he said. 

"For this reason, I chose Africa as my first official visit as President of the World Bank Group, acknowledged the priority given by the governments of the continent to faster growth and poverty reduction," he added. 

Yong Kim said he will also discuss the importance of reducing trade barriers and integrate the economies of the continent's cracked. Then, in both countries, he will meet the leaders and cabinet ministers, business representatives, women's leaders, and youth. 

Unlike bankers, diplomats and economists who have run the World Bank in the past, Kim brings a background in medicine and note develop programs to fight diseases like HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis in poor countries.