Trade should be more of a political hot potato. For @BW.
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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US vaccination rates are terrible —for @BW.
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We need a stronger WHO and more research. For @BW.
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More and more people are getting married for love. Yay. For @BW.
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The new SDGs –impossibly broad. For @BW.
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The oil curse –still meh. For @BW.
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Smile: your GDP depends on it. For @BW.
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Terror kills hardly anyone. Disease kills millions. For @BW.
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A CGD blog. In my blog on taxes in the Addis Financing for Development draft, I argued that any language on revenue levels should be matched with ambitious language on spending the money well. But it is technically hard to set meaningful targets on the efficiency of government spending.
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A CGD blog. Tax day looms large for many Americans – April 15 was the last date for paying your tax bill, and the day on which the top one percent of Americans, who get 21.0 percent of total income, pay 21.6 percent of total state and federal taxes. So much for a progressive tax system.
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