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Inside the G8: Why the Meeting Was Critical in the Effort to End Poverty

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Submitted by Jim Yong Kim On Thu, 06/20/2013

LONDON -- I'm just back from the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland, and under the leadership of Prime Minister David Cameron, we focused on some critical but often overlooked elements on how the world can end extreme poverty in a generation: taxes, trade, and transparency. Watch the video to see why I feel so strongly about this.


 

  • Tags:
  • Japan [1]
  • Italy [2]
  • Germany [3]
  • France [4]
  • Canada [5]
  • United Kingdom [6]
  • Russian Federation [7]
  • United States [8]
  • Poverty [9]
  • G8 [10]
  • Taxes [11]
  • Trade [12]
  • Transparency [13]

Source URL (retrieved on 04/25/2018 - 11:29): http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/inside-g8-why-meeting-was-critical-effort-end-poverty

Links:
[1] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/japan
[2] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/italy
[3] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/germany
[4] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/france
[5] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/canada
[6] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/united-kingdom
[7] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/russian-federation
[8] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/countries/united-states
[9] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/topics/poverty
[10] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/tags/g8
[11] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/tags/taxes
[12] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/tags/trade
[13] http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/category/tags/transparency