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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The role of cheap diagnostic tests in strengtheing the ability of patients to hold doctors to account –my FP column.
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A Bloomberg Businessweek column on they mythical job creating potential of (very) small business in countries rich and poor alike. It was picked up by WaPo.
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This week's FP column –religion doesn't determine economic performance (no, really).
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FP column in which I suggest the middle class is much like the other classes, only more in the middle.
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A (positive) review of Banerjee and Duflo's Poor Economics for Democracy.
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Got Cheap Milk? calls for cosmovorism –eating as if the planet mattered. I discussed the piece on the Kojo Nnamdi show. Not popular with the Seattle Times, amongst others (and on reflection some of the language in the middle of the piece was unnecessarily inflamatory). But the CattleNetwork liked it.
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That's what the Patrick Swayze fans over at FP titled my column on Arvind Subramanian's new book and reasons to be positive about China's looming economic dominance. It was picked up in a Time blog.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Insurgency suggests that the link between climate change and global warfare might be overblown.
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This Optimist column notes Mexico has the biggest rich-poor gap in the world, and that weak governance may be behind it –but recent changes suggest there might be hope for shrinking that gap.
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The week's second Optimist column –the US should be happy it is coming off the top spot. I spoke about the article on Canada's Q Radio program (08/22).
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