For Quartz: the problem with Liberia is not that it spends too much on government.
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. The world of business is still extremely gender-unequal. Across the countries in the World Bank’s enterprise surveys less than one in five firms are run by a woman, for example. Governments could help fix that problem by using their immense purchasing power (close on $10 trillion a …
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For Quartz. The original title, still in the weblink, gave me a panic attack.
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A CGD blog. Martin Kirk and Jason Hickel published a piece earlier this week on the annual Gates Letter. The core critique is that the letter is too rosy. In particular, Kirk and Hickel say of the Gates letter: some of their examples are just wrong. The case t…
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If the U.S. wants to get out of the rut of slow growth and a yawning rich-poor gap, we know the policies that will work —for Ozy.
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…Or at least that's what I hope. Uses PEPFAR as an example. For the Economist.
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For the Economist: don't get up your hopes that Trump will be voted out for being corrupt.
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A CGD blog with Tanvi Jaluka. For all the protestations about equality, there’s evidence to suggest both the International Olympic Committee and FIFA turn a blind eye to evidence of considerable discrimination against women when it comes to the opportunity to compete at the highest levels of sport. They should be ready to …
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The US should be investing more in nuclear power research —for Ozy.
Charles Kenny 