Where is the bold new Africa strategy we were promised? For the Atlantic.
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 with Beth Schwanke. President Obama is wheels up to Kenya and Ethiopia. Likely his last trip to the continent as president, Charles Kenny and Todd Moss each take this moment to assess his legacy in Africa thus far and identify where there are still opportunities. Here is Charles in Bloomberg. Here is …..
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A CGD blog. In 2002, negotiators from the world over met in Mexico to agree on the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development. As Simon Maxwell has pointed out, it is an international document on development cooperation that leads with the most vital financing iss…
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A column for Bloomberg on Obama's visit to Africa. There had better not be any socckets on display.
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A chapter for CGD's White House and the World publication looking at US policies from trade through migration, investment and aid that could improve outcomes for women worldwide. Written with Sarah Dykstra.
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For the first half of this week, I was at the seaside with my family.On Tuesday, with the help of new friends from across the beach, we built a pyramid. It was as tall as my younger daughter, and surrounded by a complex of moats, watchtowers and crenellated walls that spread far over the sands. It set a paradigm for ocean-side construction with plastic tools, covering the waterfront of approaches from drip through carved to shell-dashed and bucket-molded.
By Wednesday morning it was gone, of course. For all its scale, breadth and ambition, our project lacked anything solid enough to stand the tests of time and tide. My daughters, Ozymandiai before their years, had stuffed koalas from the boardwalk ring toss to console them. I had nothing but sunken dreams.The holiday means I missed out on following the Addis Financing for Development conference. Coverage from my CGD colleagues Rajesh here and Owen here.Correction: A.G. Benson corrected my Greek (I had Ozymndiae). Matthew Rose suggested Oxymandianish, which I hope to see on Pg. 1 of the WSJ before long. -
A piece on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website on open contracting with Gavin Hayman.
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Just in time for the Addis Financing for Development conference, an essay [/collection of blogs] on making the Addis Accord better… Some of the ideas have already been incorporated, sort of, a bit.
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Bloomberg column suggesting Greece is one more piece of evidence it is a mistake to let the same people forecast growth who are agreeing debt deals.
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