John Gershman

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President Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim to be president of the World Bank is a powerful choice for an institution charged with addressing some of the world’s toughest challenges. Chief among these is to help developing economies achieve sustained growth by ensuring that its benefits are broadly shared.

Recent claims from some economists that Kim is “anti-growth” are based on a willful misreading and selective reporting of passages from Kim’s co-edited volume “Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor,” to which we both contributed. Any reasonable reading of the book indicates that “Dying for Growth” is pro-growth, raising questions about particular policies and patterns of growth that exclude the great majority of people living in poverty.…  Seguir leyendo »