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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A column on culture –it matters to development, but it can change awfully fast under the right circumstances.
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An FP column on the US getting left behind on climate change.
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FP column calling for al-Shabab leaders to face the ICC.
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This FP column suggests that $40 billion a year would raise the incomes of the poorest up to $1.25/day in 2015. Allowing for poor targetting, that's maybe $100bn or 0.25% of rich country GDP. I responded to some of the comments on the piece here.
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Written with CGD Visiting Fellow Andy Sumner, this piece for the Guardian explores the phenomenon of the vanishing low-income country.
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No, not a column about George Bush Senior: instead, I'm suggesting donors focus more on small scale companies and less on big public utilities to get modern energy services to poor people.
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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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This Optimist column argues that developing countries would be better off with less regulation that was better enforced.
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A Shot in the Dark, for Foreign Policy, cheers the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization's supply side initiatives but suggests the need for a greater focus on the demand side –getting parents to bring their kids to get vaccinated.
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The DR Congo has actually seen some progress in the quality of life over the past 20 years despite income dropping by two thirds —FP column.
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