Charles Kenny
Books, Papers and Articles
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.
Category: F. Globalization
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More Money or More Development is a CGD Working Paper with Andy Sumner. What have the MDGs achieved? And what might their achievements mean for any second generation of MDGs or MDGs 2.0? We argue that the MDGs may have played a role in increasing aid and that development policies beyond aid quantity have seen…
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The Optimist column on Gates' financing proposals at the G-20 and the outlook for pro-development policy in the US.
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The Optimist column this week suggests traditional aid can sometimes buy governments and humanitarian aid can sometimes buy popularity –but only a little.
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A Bloomberg Businessweek column on how little it matters to the stuff that matters that the US will no longer be the World's largest economy. I discussed it on Blommberg radio.
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An FP column on the brain drain, and how wonderful it is.
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A rant about SWEDOW –stuff we don't want– as aid, in Foreign Policy. I talked about it on CBC's Q.
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An FP column on the US getting left behind on climate change.
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An opinion piece for Bloomberg Businessweek arguing that the only moral course is to hire illegals –it isn't bad for Americans and it is great for them, so what's not to love. I talked about it on a few radio stations, including David Serota's show. Immigration does bring out the crazy, but here's a reasonably…
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Worried about spiralling US health costs? Outsource care to Thailand. This week's Optimist column.
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A column about the need for a new marketing strategy for development –and millenarianism.
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