Trust in gov't is down worldwide, suggesting it is more than the financial crisis. Time for more transparency.
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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Yay! Kenya's found more water. Boo! the problem is getting it where its needed.
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Military power doesn't get you the kind of respect it used to –which is good news– in @BW.
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A CGD blog. A year ago, ActionAid Italy and and BOND came out with a report on aid agency independence. Comparing the performance of independent aid ministries with aid agencies that function under another ministry (foreign affairs, as it might be), the report made the case that there is …
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A CGD blog. It is a lesson that (development) economists need to relearn every generation: stuff is complicated and best practices don’t always work. But in a well-meaning attempt to find universal solutions to (seemingly) intractable problems, the development industry does seem to lik…
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For @FP, in which I argue existing examples of dismantling borders suggest we should do more of it.
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The crisis of learning in the developing world for @BW. Its the short version of this CGD report.
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A review of Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth by Peter Blair Henry in Washington Monthly.
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A draft declaration for the UNGA on the post-2015 development agenda as a CGD Essay. Doubt the real one looks much like it…
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