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.

About Charles

Category: M. National Security

  • Paying For Peace

    A column on using conditional cash transfers to reward not blowing up soldiers in Afghanistan.  I talked about it briefly on PRI's The World.

  • Iron Curtain Call

    This column makes the case that Mikhail Gorbachev is the cause of a significant drop off in global violence over the last twenty years.