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…
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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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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A CGD blog. There were a lot of speeches made around the SDGs by prime ministers and presidents this weekend that had a broadly similar format. The result was much stirring rhetoric, and almost nothing in the way of progress.
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The United Nations has set conflicting goals for 2030: combatting climate change while providing energy to all. It suggests they aren't by low-balling electricity demand. For the Atlantic.
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There’s a simple way to reform welfare: Send money to those who need it, without conditions. For the Atlantic.
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For Businessweek: with declining birth rates, rich countries need foreigners.
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