Morning Briefing

In this Washington Post opinion piece, Paul Farmer, a Harvard professor and co-founder of Partners In Health, and John Gershman, a professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, discuss the nomination of Jim Yong Kim, a global health expert and Dartmouth College president, to be president of the World Bank. "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," they write, adding, "The book's objective was to ask questions about what types of growth and what kinds of policies were beneficial for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty."