Has anything changed in the gun control debate? 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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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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The party of white people can't accuse Democrats of being all about identity politics. For the Economist.
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A CGD blog with Mallika Snyder. Christal Morehouse, Alla Volkova, and Silvia Fierscu of The Open Society Foundation (OSF) have just issued a fascinating report on the gender breakdown of speakers at 23 high-level conferences across Europe including nine forums, six conferences, four meetings, three summits, and a ….
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A piece on what Canada could do to further global gender equality for OpenCanada.org.
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A CGD blog with Tanvi Jaluka. Last year on International Women’s Day we talked about labor and financial equality as a prerequisite for women’s empowerment. This year, we’re being a little more introspective. Many nonprofits working in global development advocate for women’s empowerment and gender e…
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Welfare works. Me in The Economist.
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