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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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(Still) getting better. For the Atlantic.
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A CGD blog with Justin Sandefur. The research organization Aid Data has been getting a lot of attention in the aid world of late with its survey of recipient country policymakers and practitioners and their views of the utility, influence and helpfulness during reform of various aid agencies. Suggests the press release: &…
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A CGD blog. For the reader in a hurry, this gift-giving guide comes in two parts: one for those with $45 billion to spend and one for those of slightly more modest means. Please feel free to skip to the part which is more applicable to your budget for presents.
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A call for smart sanctions on the House of Saud based on its extremism at home and abroad. For Politico.
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A CGD blog with Megan O’Donnell. As part of our new Gender and Development program, CGD just hosted the first annual Birdsall House Conference on Women. This year’s session, Small Changes, Big Impact: Creating Conditions for Women and Girls to Thrive, explored the possibility that cheap and scalable aid-funded i…
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Paul Ryan only cares about one third of the American idea that condition of birth shouldn't determine outcomes —me in The Atlantic.
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A CGD blog. Has the effort to make the goals famous laid the foundation for a global movement? The initial evidence suggests ‘not yet.’ And in defense of the Global Goals organizers, that isn’t for lack of trying.
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With Justin Sandefur, for Vox. The piles of arbitrary adjustments that got us from $1.25 to $1.90.
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