A CGD blog with Sarah Dykstra. Back in the 1960s and 70s, the standard model of how to make poor countries rich was to insert capital, whether for investments in infrastructure or for human capital investments like education and health.
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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 Casey Dunning
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A CGD blog. The World Bank is in the process of reforming its procurement system, the set of rules that borrowers have to follow when they use Bank financing to buy goods and services. Most of the proposals sound very sensible: much less prior review of the process for smaller contracts (World Ban…
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How Innovation Rewrote the Rules of Foreign Policy –an article for The Breakthrough.
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The long term trend is towards cosmopolitanism –and the economic arguments only grow in strength. In @BW.
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Treat it as such and focus on results —in @BW.
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Money –cheaper than armies. In @BW.
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Immigration has imporoved the game –in @BW.
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For @BW –on the great news that the CIA won't be using vax campaigns any more.
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