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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Chug for Growth for FP suggests the Protestant Work Ethic has nothing on the brewery when it comes to promoting development. Kinda sorta wished it had come out on April 1st…
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Why the declining cost and complexity of eye care is a huge boon for the developing world –the latest for FP.
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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.
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Worried about spiralling US health costs? Outsource care to Thailand. This week's Optimist column.
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The Optimist celebrates the seven (and then the ten) billion people on the planet.
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An FP column with a somewhat critical take on the UN Broadband Commission.
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A column about the need for a new marketing strategy for development –and millenarianism.
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A column about corruption perceptions, the gap between perceptions and reality, and the better ways of thinking about the development challenge of bribery.
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My FP column attacking Survival International for advertising techniques which should have been abandoned with Columbus. They didn't like it.
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My FP column: developing countries should ensure their trade policies maximize the variety of goods available to citizens. That means lowering barriers on goods they don't produce. Its a policy even import substituting industrializers can get behind.
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