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: R. Columns and general writing
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Bloomberg column suggesting Greece is one more piece of evidence it is a mistake to let the same people forecast growth who are agreeing debt deals.
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Well, mostly, anyway. For @BW.
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Slightly misleading headline. Go, just remember you'll be pretty useless, and see it as a learning experience –the start and motivation for a life of advocating or working for development. For @BW.
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The FIFA scandal is a reminder that the size of bribes pales in comparison with the economic damage they inflict –for @BW.
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By 2030 we may have managed to eradicate being poor by the average definition two or three decades ago of the poorest 15 countries with available statistics updated by more or less reliable inflation and purchasing power numbers since then…. That's what happens when you have to change the method of calculating extreme poverty because your…
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A piece on Addis, Paris, New York, post-2015 and financing for development for the IMF's Finance and Development.
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… In very poor countries. For @BW.
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Real hope for the eradication of polio, measles, rubella, and maybe malaria. For @BW.
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Because there are less of them. For @BW.
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A piece with John Norris for Foreign Policy on the history of dams at Inga on the Congo. TLDR: its depressing.
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