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. Low-income countries account for 0.4 percent of the global economy. Such a small, poor market is not attractive to innovators and researchers, and low-income countries cannot afford to support significant research of their own. That combination means that technological challenges specific to poor co…

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