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.
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A CGD blog also published on SAIS Perspectives. The Future of Work is all the rage the latest World Bank World Development Report is dedicated to the issue, the World Economic Forum and McKinsey have issued multiple reports, and your job is being stolen by a robot articles are being churned out at a rate…
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A CGD blog. In my last blog post on the IDA Private Sector Window, I noted the strong principles on subsidies to the private sector that were agreed by the heads of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 as part of the Multilateral Development Bank Principles to Support Sustainable Pri…
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A CGD blog. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said gender equality at the United Nations is an urgent need &ndash and a personal priority. It is a moral duty and an operational necessity. Guterres was quick to meet his goal of gender parity in UN senior management. But…
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A CGD blog. I have previously suggested that the current design of the $2.5 billion World Bank/IDA Private Sector Window (PSW) seemed an inefficient use of scarce aid resources, didn’t follow the World Bank’s own guidance on disclosure and design of subsidies to the private secto…
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A CGD blog. IFC 3.0 is a welcome and important initiative for a development finance institution that in the past has been accused of putting profits before impact. But the IDA PSW instrument is a throwback to the old IFC opaque as well as inefficiently targeted on development results. Design…
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A CGD blog with Maya Forstater. Government contracts are worth trillions of dollars. Publishing contracting information is critical to enabling fair competition, allowing public scrutiny, and reducing opportunities for corruption. But when is it legitimate to redact commercially sensitive information from these documents?
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A CGD blog with John Polcari. In July, CGD launched a study group on Technology, Comparative Advantage, and Development Prospects. This project builds on a large body of existing research from its members and other scholars at the Center. To give you a quick primer on the group’s work, let’s look back at some of…
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A CGD blog with Jason Hickel. There’s a lot of heat on the topic of global poverty, but fundamentally a lot of agreement, too. Here is our attempt at a brief consensus position.
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A CGD blog with Scott Morris and Vijaya Ramachandran. The International Finance Corporation wants to increase support for both private sector-led development and fragile states. But how viable are these goals?
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