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. In 2011, US officials admitted they used a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of an effort to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
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A CGD blog. With the Sustainable Development Goals Working Group busy in New York trying to whittle down its areas of interest into a plausible list of targets, two issues of &lsquo goal ownership’ have come to the fore. First, everyone seems very keen the goals should be universal but &lsquo countr…
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A CGD blog. A set of more or less arbitrary lines continues to do very strange things to discussions about development.
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A CGD blog with Lawrence MacDonald. CGD' s Casey Dunning, Charles Kenny, and Jonathan Karver recently wrote an analysis with the provocative title Hating on the Hurdle, that offered constructive criticism of the Millennium Challenge Corporation' s (MCC) approach to penalizing corruption using a hard hurdl…
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A CGD blog. Last week, CGD hosted a discussion with Alicia Phillips Mandaville and Andria Hayes-Birchler of the Millennium Challenge Corporation about the MCC’s &lsquo corruption hard hurdle’ &ndash the Corporation’s use of a corruption indicator as a key pass/fail component of selecting …
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A CGD blog. Yesterday in a blog about the World Bank and open contracting, I mentioned the bank had put out more data on contracts that it finances. The covered contracts are those that were large enough for World Bank procurement procedures to mandate prior review by ba…
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A CGD blog. Over the last few years, the World Bank has put a lot of thought and resources behind making contracting more transparent and to build up the capacity of citizens to get what they are paying for through government procurement. The bank has designed and financed innovative community-driven proj…
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A CGD blog. In preparation for a CGD working group on government contract publication, we’ve been looking at how much information governments already put online about the contracts that they award. Australia current president of the G-20 is an interesting case. …
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A CGD blog. Our new analysis Hating on the Hurdle explores the MCC’s use of a hard hurdle for its control of corruption indicator and finds that this strict interpretation &ndash a country must be above the median on the corruption indicator to be considered for eligibility &ndash is…
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A CGD blog. What should the US and Europe do about the relative decline of their global influence? My guest this week, CGD senior fellow Charles Kenny, has a surprising answer in his new book, The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Good for the West. His take? Embrace it.
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