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. Today, CGD is presenting the Commitment to Development Award to The Open Government Partnership (OGP), a consortium of governments and civil society from 65 countries that have made over 2,000 commitments to make government more open and accountable.
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A CGD blog. Yesterday I was excited to see that the UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) had a report out on UK Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) anticorruption activities. It was a great topic for independent analysis by a group that didn’t need to worry about the…
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A CGD blog with Todd Moss. Momentum seems to be building on Capitol Hill for some kind of West African travel ban as an anti-Ebola measure. It sounds like a simple solution. But here’s why a travel ban is pointless-or could even make us less safe.
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A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Twenty years ago First Lady Hillary Clinton spoke in Beijing before the Fourth World Conference on Women and declared: If there is one message that echoes from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for al…
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A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. We noted in a previous blog that 79 countries restrict the type of jobs women can do just on the grounds of their sex.
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A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Domestic violence – overwhelmingly against women – is by far the most common form of violence in the world. About 350 million women across the planet have suffered severe physical violence from their intimate partner.
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A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Back in the 1960s and 70s, the standard model of how to make poor countries rich was to insert capital, whether for investments in infrastructure or for human capital investments like education and health.
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A CGD blog with Casey Dunning
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A CGD blog. The World Bank is in the process of reforming its procurement system, the set of rules that borrowers have to follow when they use Bank financing to buy goods and services. Most of the proposals sound very sensible: much less prior review of the process for smaller contracts (World Ban…
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A CGD blog with Casey Dunning
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