World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim – World Government Summit, Dubai, United 
Arab Emirates
Good afternoon, your Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
I am grateful to the people of the United Arab Emirates and to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for inviting me again to this year’s World Government Summit.
I can’t think of a more fitting place than Dubai to give this speech.
Government ministers from around the world confronted the refugee crisis, a slowing economy, and other global challenges at the 2016 World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings.
“Forced Displacement and Development” was the only item on the agenda at the 
Development Committee meeting on Saturday. The committee, which represents the 189 shareholder countries of the Bank Group and the IMF, urged its members to take action to support vulnerable people who have been forced to flee their homes, and encouraged the institutions to partner with humanitarian organizations to help forcibly displaced people and host communities confront the root causes of the problem.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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