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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Trump is in a shrinking minority. For the Economist.
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For the Economist. Slowing wage convergence between migrants and natives isn't driven by lower skills as much as by native discrimination.
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Family detention centers are harsh and unnecessary. For the Economist.
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Because the old, white, aging (temporary) majority isn't having kids… for the Economist.
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A CGD Working Paper on policy coordination to help meet the SDGs. TLDR: Important, but hard. This paper discusses the role for policy integration to speed progress towards delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is required because the goals set very ambitious targets for progress across a range of interlinked areas, encompassing both synergies…
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A review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now for The Democracy Journal: Its Not as Bad as All That. And a review of Gregg Easterbrook's It’s Better Than It Looks for The Washington Monthly: Dear Democrats, Don’t Despair.
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Seasonal cheer for Vox.
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Trump's wall: transparently stupid. For the Economist.
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Why DACA is good, for the Economist.
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A review of The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce and The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea by Bill Emmott, for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
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