More than one billion people around the world live in extreme poverty, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is determined to change that.He is asking the bank’s member nations for more resources to help the poorest people.Kim says the deepest poverty can be eliminated by 2030.“Is there anyone who has lived on less than $1.25 a day who would not join me here today in telling you that it is time to end extreme poverty," he asked.Economists say global economic growth will help the poor and make it easier for the world's 200 million unemployed to find work.IMF Chief Christine Lagarde says overall growth is getting better.“The economic world no longer looks quite as dangerous as it did none months ago," she said.But growth will still be tepid, she warns, especially in wealthy developed nations.She says it could be hurt by ill-considered cuts in government budgets and economic stimulus efforts, or further disruptions in Europe.The United States and Western Europe are traditionally give the most money and provide the top leaders to the IMF and World Bank.So stalled growth hurts international financial institutions.
