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.

A CGD blog. In August last year, I made a modest proposal to China’s Minister of Finance regarding IDA, the soft lending arm of the World Bank that works with the poorest countries. I suggested China might want to become an equal IDA shareholder to the US. While Beijing did increase its contribution in the sub….

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