World Bank [to 11 October 2014]
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Speech by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim: “Tackling the Most Difficult Problems: Infrastructure, Ebola and Climate Change”
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim
IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings 2014
Washington, D.C., United States
October 10, 2014

A Toolkit for Making Everyone Count in Sub-Saharan Africa
Digital identity (Digital ID) is a catalyst for development and progress, particularly for low- and middle- income countries. According to a recent World Bank Group publication titled Digital Identity Toolkit: A Guide for Stakeholders in Africa, Digital ID is not only a key enabler for service delivery to the poorest, but also helps grow a country’s economy and social development. In a high-level event last year, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim characterized India’s digital IDs as a poverty-killer and a game-changer.
A government’s ability to deliver important services to its people depends on its ability to uniquely identify them. An official identity is central to everything from health care and voting to social welfare and transport.
Download the Toolkit: In English: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/20272197
October 9, 2014

Transcript of Remarks at the Event: Impact of the Ebola Crisis: A Perspective from the Countries
October 9, 2014
The World Bank convened a special event focused on the impact of the Ebola Crisis. This transcript captures comments by World Bank President Jim Kim as host and:
:: President CONDÉ of Guinea; President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia; President Koroma of Sierra Leone
:: IMF President Christine Lagarde
:: UNSG Ban Ki-moon
:: President Donald Kaberuka of the African Development Bank
:: CDC Director Tom Frieden
:: Finance Minister of Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
:: Kristalina Georgieva, Member, European Union Commission
:: Bruce Aylward, World Health Organization
:: Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan, Cote d’Ivoire
:: Ragiv Shah, USAID
:: David Olson, Medicins sans Frontieres
:: Mark Suzman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
:: Geeta Rao Gupta, UNICEF; President of ECOWAS; the Minister of Foreign Affairs from Norway, and Chris Stone from the Open Society Foundation….

Measurement Is Fundamental For Ending Extreme Poverty, But Must Be Done Better, Says World Bank Report
October 9, 2014
WASHINGTON, October 9, 2014 – Data and measurement are vital to achieve the World Bank Group’s twin goals of ending poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity, but data systems at the country level need to be strengthened and data should be collected more frequently to better inform national policy and to help international partners identify gaps and prioritize actions, says a new World Bank report launched today.
The report, ‘Policy Research Report 2014: A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals’, makes an urgent call for better and more timely collection of comparable household survey data, which provide information on people’s consumption or income. The report observes that data and measurement are pivotal to the assessment of the Bank Group’s twin goals, and, thereby, their achievement.

World Bank Group Launches New Global Infrastructure Facility
Move paves way for institutional investors to help fill infrastructure gaps in developing world: US$1 trillion a year in extra investment needed through 2020.WASHINGTON, October 9, 2014— The heads of some of the world’s largest asset management and private equity firms, pension and insurance funds, and commercial banks are today joining multilateral development institutions and donor nations to work as partners in a new Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) that has the potential to unlock billions of dollars for infrastructure in the developing world. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said the presence of a broad range of institutional investors at the signing to launch the GIF sent a powerful message, with the most recent data showing that private infrastructure investment in emerging markets and developing economies dropped from US$186 billion in 2012 to $150 billion last year. “We have several trillions of dollars in assets represented today looking for long-term…
October 9, 2014

Working Paper: The economic impact of the 2014 Ebola epidemic : short and medium term estimates for West Africa (English)
World Bank, 2014 Official PDF, 71 pages