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We Aim to Reduce Global Inequality

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International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group will host the 2014 annual meeting in Washington D.C. on October 10 to 12.

In a speech in advance of the meetings, President Jim Yong Kim spoke about the World Bank Group’s goal of boosting shared prosperity at Howard University on October 1st.

We are working to ensure that the growth of the global economy will improve the lives of all members of society, not only a fortunate few. For the first time in the history, the world bank set a goal aiming specifically to reduce global inequality.

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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