A column on the rising number of deaths of despair among older whites for the Economist.
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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Bemoaning the victory of culture war over class war in US politics. In The Economist.
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For The Economist: welfare reform was bad and Trump is doubling down.
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A piece for Vox on the barely progressive arguably regressive tax and spending systems of poorer developing countries.
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A CGD Working Paper on policy coordination to help meet the SDGs. TLDR: Important, but hard.
This paper discusses the role for policy integration to speed progress towards delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is required because the goals set very ambitious targets for progress across a range of interlinked areas, encompassing both synergies and tradeoffs. Lessons of policy integration at the national level suggest that it is usually at best partially successful, requiring significant commitment from the highest levels of government. Policy integration regarding foreign affairs has proven even more challenging. This paper suggests a mechanism for prioritizing coordination and the use of coordination tools including regulation, safeguards, taxes, and subsidies. It also suggests re-orienting ministerial responsibilities where possible from input control to achievement of outcomes as well as tools to promote innovation by subnational governments and the private sector.
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Has anything changed in the gun control debate? For the Economist.
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ICE going rogue with the support of the President. For the Economist.
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A CGD blog with Justin Sandefur. The world’s poorest people have been getting richer recently. But they remain incredibly poor. The 10 percent of the world’s population still consuming $1.90 or less a day are subsisting on a small fraction of the resources available to people at the US poverty line. So you’d hope …
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On the grim economic prospects for black males in the US, for The Economist.
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A review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now for The Democracy Journal: Its Not as Bad as All That.
And a review of Gregg Easterbrook's It’s Better Than It Looks for The Washington Monthly: Dear Democrats, Don’t Despair.
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