Charles Kenny
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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. Two weeks ago, UN Women entered into an agreement with Uber, the taxi app, that would see the two organizations working together to get one million women worldwide to sign up as taxi drivers by 2020. Then, last Friday, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka – UN Women’s Executive Director pulled out of the deal.
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A CGD blog.
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A CGD blog. Imagine you are an aid agency with a new mission, set at the highest level: end world poverty. Two come to mind. How are you to achieve such a noble but audacious goal? The first thing you’d want to do is define the target: what is meant by &lsquo poverty’? Perhaps ….
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A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Last week, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, completed a $7.5 billion replenishment to fund its work on immunization in the world’s poorest countries between now and 2020. Gavi’s next step is to ensure that the money is used as effectively as possible to save lives and improve health.
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A CGD blog with Nazanin Ash. The budget that the President submitted to Congress this week included an 8 percent increase in the international affairs account, including a commendable increase for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. But what we haven’t seen from this administration yet is a concrete proposal for how Ame…
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A CGD blog. Three big conferences next year could affect the next two decades of global development. The first will bring world leaders to Addis Ababa in July for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.
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A CGD blog. Today, we’ll hold the DC launch event for Publishing Government Contracts: Addressing Concerns and Easing Implementation at the OpenGov Hub in Washington DC (do come!).
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A CGD blog. The CGD Working Group report on Publishing Government Contracts lays out the case for routine publication of government contracts, suggests approaches to maximize the impact and effectiveness of that publication, and addresses some common concerns about collusion, privacy, and commercial and nationa…
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A CGD blog. On the 12th November, I’ll be attending an Overseas Development Institute conference in London on financing the Sustainable Development Goals.
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A CGD blog. This week, we’ll launch a CGD Working Group report on Publishing Government Contracts at the Open Up? conference in London. That’s an appropriate location not just because the UK is a leader in government contract publication, but also because London is a city that was made conside…
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