A CGD blog. Rory Stewart may turn out to be the shortest serving Secretary of State for International Development in the UK. Charles Kenny outlines the skills and experience that Rory Stewart has brought to the department.
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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 with Euan Ritchie. The UK government has recently ramped up the amount of aid that is directed towards research and development. While this can be positive in ensuring a sound research base for UK aid funds, this should not be seen as an opportunity to plug UK university funding deficits, or to tie aid to …
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In the Economist: desegregation led to the rise of teacher testing, which has depressed the number of African American teachers.
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Probably not very many, but the safety net is still a mess. Me for The Economist.
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A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic, host Charles Kenny talks with Amolo Ng’weno, CEO and East Africa Regional Director for BFA, about her recent paper on what technological advance might mean for the informal sector.
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Me, in The Economist, on pre-K.
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A CGD Working Paper examines the impact of Ukraine’s ambitious procurement reform on outcomes amongst a set of procurements that used competitive tendering. The ProZorro system placed all of the country’s government procurement online, introduced an auction approach as the default procurement method, and extended transparency. The reform was introduced with a dramatic increase in the proportion of government procurement that was conducted competitively. This paper examines the impact of ProZorro and reform on contracts that were procured competitively both prior to and after the introduction of the new system. It finds some evidence of impact of the new system on increasing the number of bidders, cost savings, and reduced contracting times.
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A CGD blog. In a new CGD working paper, we try to measure the impact of one of the most significant open contracting reforms worldwide, which took place in Ukraine in the last few years. Since 2015, the country has overhauled its procurement system, including the introduction of an e-procurement platform c…
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A CGD blog. A world where risk-taking and competition weren’t considered quite so admirable or so male, and where more stereotypically “feminine” traits like cooperation were properly recognized and rewarded, would be better for both women and men.
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For The Economist. Across genders and race/ethnicities, Americans get more miserable as they reach middle age. White men still kill themselves more often, though.
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