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. This podcast was originally recorded in March 2011. Development is easy, right? All poor countries have to do is mimic the things that work in rich countries and they’ll evolve into fully functional states. If only it were that simple. My guest this week is Lant Pritchett, a non-resident fello…
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A CGD blog. Recent thinking around the post-2015 development agenda has focused on the goals and targets of a follow-on set of Millennium Development Goals for the period 2010&ndash 2030. These are important discussions that have clarified potential areas for goals and the plausibility of particular t…
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A CGD blog. CGD has just posted a policy paper by Sarah Dykstra and me on Millennium Development Goal 8 (that would be the one on a global partnership for development&rdquo ) and lessons for post-2015. It is an updated version of a paper we submitted to the High-Level Panel on post-2015 (available here) …
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A CGD blog. I’m in full agreement with Todd that it’s great the Obama administration is focusing on energy in Africa (or at least, telling Ex-Im and OPIC to focus on energy in Africa). Todd spent a good deal of time in 2012&ndash 13 encouraging White House to make the issue a signature US fore…
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A CGD blog. Last week, the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda released its final report setting out goals for poverty eradication and sustainable development. Most of the instant-reaction commentary was broadly positive (mine included) some complaints about missing goals (especially ineq…
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A CGD blog.
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A CGD blog.
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