The article talks about an idealistic Korean-American physician and anthropologist Jim Yong Kim, who helped with the eradicate starvation in Lima, Peru in 1994. It states that Peru was undergoing structural adjustment due to debt, privatizations, and government cutbacks. Kim is the President of the World Bank, who was trying to shut the Bank, as he felt it was responsible for Peru's social conditions. It discusses the friendship between Kim and Paul Farmer, a fellow who studied with him at the Harvard University. According to Kim, world development would only happen once the humanitarian crisis is eradicated
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