For Slate. Anti-vaxxers then and now.
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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A CGD blog with Tanvi Jaluka. We analyzed participant data from 12 gender-related events and 12 randomly-selected (but similarly-sized) non-gender-related events hosted by CGD, and the evidence is very clear: men aren’t showing up for gender equality.
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A policy note for CGD. Women find it hard to emigrate from countries with terrible women's rights. It would be self-interested for recipient countries with good rights to favor their entry.
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A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. The benefits of the migration of women to women themselves, sending, and receiving countries are well-documented. But across the world, women face higher barriers to migration than do men: in accessing the education and work experience that can help qualify them for visas, or in finding the resource…
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A CGD blog. There’s a lot to be said for good data sense, and one way the Millennium Challenge Corporation could demonstrate such sense next year is to replace their current corruption measure with a better one: surveyed evidence of bribes paid.
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Usual holiday cheer for The Atlantic…
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A piece for the Economist's Democracy in America blog.
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In most of the world, net neutrality and ICANN are less important than infrastructure and free speech. For Slate.
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The next US administration should allocate at least $1 billion in additional resources—equal to a little over two percent of current US overseas assistance—exclusively dedicated to advancing gender equality in developing countries, with a specific focus on improving women’s and girls’ economic opportunities and outcomes. A CGD brief with Megan O'Donnell Mayra Buvinic and Cindy Huang.
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A review of Jonathan Tepperman's book The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline, for Washington Monthly.
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