They don't learn anything, they don't learn anything useful and there's nothing useful to do with what they've learned. In @BW.
Charles Kenny
Books, Papers and Articles
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. Last week, CGD hosted a discussion with Alicia Phillips Mandaville and Andria Hayes-Birchler of the Millennium Challenge Corporation about the MCC’s &lsquo corruption hard hurdle’ &ndash the Corporation’s use of a corruption indicator as a key pass/fail component of selecting …
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A CGD blog with Lawrence MacDonald. CGD' s Casey Dunning, Charles Kenny, and Jonathan Karver recently wrote an analysis with the provocative title Hating on the Hurdle, that offered constructive criticism of the Millennium Challenge Corporation' s (MCC) approach to penalizing corruption using a hard hurdl…
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A CGD blog. Yesterday in a blog about the World Bank and open contracting, I mentioned the bank had put out more data on contracts that it finances. The covered contracts are those that were large enough for World Bank procurement procedures to mandate prior review by ba…
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A CGD blog. Over the last few years, the World Bank has put a lot of thought and resources behind making contracting more transparent and to build up the capacity of citizens to get what they are paying for through government procurement. The bank has designed and financed innovative community-driven proj…
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A CGD blog. In preparation for a CGD working group on government contract publication, we’ve been looking at how much information governments already put online about the contracts that they award. Australia current president of the G-20 is an interesting case. …
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Tasty, but bad for the environment and health. In @BW.
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Safety regulations make it very expensive. In @BW.
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Yay, Fulbright. In @BW.
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Private schools are a sign of hope in the developing world. In @FP (my last regular column).
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