Charles Kenny

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Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.

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How 28 poor countries escaped the poverty trap

Written with CGD Visiting Fellow Andy Sumner, this piece for the Guardian explores the phenomenon of the vanishing low-income country.

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