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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Baywatch: Bigger than Aid? is an unpublished short paper. It ponders the economic impact of the television program Baywatch —an everyday tale of lifesaving folk– on people in the developing world. It concludes that, without considerably greater academic attention to the subject, we may never know the coefficient of Baywatch episodes on per capita income…
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Ending Global Poverty Through Tax Breaks to Bill Gates is an unpublished short paper. Many developing countries have enacted or are considering subsidies and tax breaks for the ICT industry. This paper argues that the economic justification for such favoritism is very weak. It is based in part on material from Overselling the Web. A…
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