Water.org co-founder Matt Damon shares some inspiring thoughts and anecdotes with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. Learn how water can be made accessible to the world’s poorest. And see how even a mega-star can be humbled by a smart Haitian pre-teen.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim called for economic growth that creates more just societies, and he defined the institution’s goal of boosting shared prosperity as the World Bank Group’s way of tackling the global challenge of inequality.

Presented by Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the 12th president of the World Bank Group

DAVOS -- The theme of this year's World Economic Forum here involves income inequality and how to close the wide gap between rich and poor. I think this is a smart choice for the meeting, which attracts some of the most powerful and wealthiest people in the world. But to battle income inequality, you need a serious plan. Watch this video from Davos by the World Bank to hear what we recommend as a smart plan of action..

Published on Jan 23, 2014

The theme of this year's World Economic Forum here involves income inequality and how to close the wide gap between rich and poor.

President Jim Yong Kim says the world must tackle the problem of climate change more aggressively. New scientific report, 'Turn Down the Heat' says the world is barreling down a path to hear up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people.