A CGD blog. CGD’s Study Group on Technology, Comparative Advantage, and Development Prospects is looking at current technology trends, including those around automation and artificial intelligence, and thinking through what they might imply for global economic growth and the distribution of inco…
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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Bipartisan dinners are shorter. In the Economist.
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On stagnating regional convergence in the US. In the Economist.
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A CGD blog with Pamela Jakiela. It is now abundantly clear that aid money will provide only a fraction of the resources needed to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. That realization came early on, and it was a central theme of the Addis Financing for Development conference of 2015, held before the SDGs were even signed.
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A CGD blog. In my last blog post on the IDA Private Sector Window, I noted the strong principles on subsidies to the private sector that were agreed by the heads of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 as part of the Multilateral Development Bank Principles to Support Sustainable Pri…
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A CGD blog also published on SAIS Perspectives. The Future of Work is all the rage the latest World Bank World Development Report is dedicated to the issue, the World Economic Forum and McKinsey have issued multiple reports, and your job is being stolen by a robot articles are being churned out at a rate that…
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Resentful Nativists Oppose Free Trade and Immigration—Don’t Appease Them. Me in Foreign Affairs.
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A CGD blog. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said gender equality at the United Nations is an urgent need &ndash and a personal priority. It is a moral duty and an operational necessity. Guterres was quick to meet his goal of gender parity in UN senior management. But…
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A CGD blog. I have previously suggested that the current design of the $2.5 billion World Bank/IDA Private Sector Window (PSW) seemed an inefficient use of scarce aid resources, didn’t follow the World Bank’s own guidance on disclosure and design of subsidies to the private secto…
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I you want more babies, let in more women and help them work. For the Economist.
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