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- FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com - Obama’s Pick for World Bank Hates CapitalismPosted By Jacob Laksin On March 29, 2012 @ 12:50 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 3 Comments Imagine if President Obama appointed radical Noam Chomsky, who has denounced capitalism as a “murderously destructive catastrophe,” to head up a committee on economic growth. That’s less of a stretch than it may seem, considering Obama’s nominee to head the World Bank, current Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim.Kim’s expertise is in health policy, so little is known about his views on economic development, the World Bank’s primary purpose. What is...

Some interesting—and by “interesting” I mean “disturbing”—quotes by Jim Yong Kim, President Obama’s nominee to the World Bank (via Marginal Revolution): First, some good words about Cuba and some bad words about economic growth: Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman, Editors, Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor, Common Courage Press: Monroe, Maine, 2000. Introduction: What is Growing? Who is Dying? By Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and Jim Yong Kim “This book seeks to fill an important gap in knowledge by examining the documentable health effects of economic development policies...

Jim Yong Kim--Obama's pick to run the World Bank--is a physician, scholar, and ... rapper? Check out the video posted by the blog IvyGate. Go to the two-minute mark. That's him dressed like a gangsta from outer space (or a member of the Black Eyed Peas) in a white leather jacket, sunglasses, biker gloves, fedora and glow stick bracelets. He

Jim Yong Kim's Wikipedia page was scrubbed this morning of unflattering references to his time at Dartmouth, after President Obama nominated him to succeed Robert Zoellick as World Bank President. Before: SNIP To be fair: there's no evidence the White House was involved. None of the IP addresses lead back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And some of the statements in the original Wikipedia article aren't immediately confirmable — for example, I find no references online to Kim installing a $30,000 coffee maker in his office. On the other hand, his tenure as Dartmouth president hasn't exactly been smooth

The president was joined by [Dartmouth College president and global health expert Jim Yong] Kim, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who first recommended that Obama consider Kim for the World Bank post. But the announcement has many scratching their heads. ... The president said Kim, a Korean-born physician and pioneer in the treatment of HIV, AIDS. and tuberculosis, has the breadth of experience on development issues needed to carry out the financial institution’s anti-poverty mission. ... Read more: http://times247.com/articles/obama-s-world-bank-nominee-connected-to-soros/?us#ixzz1q4qjAdsY

The United States has picked a public health expert of South Korean origin as its candidate for the World Bank presidency, a job emerging market economies are contesting for the first time. President Barack Obama will nominate Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, a senior administration official said on Friday. The White House would make an announcement at 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). Angola, Nigeria and South Africa have endorsed the nomination of Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a respected economist and diplomat,...