Conditions in Bangladesh's factories are awful –but better than the alternatives. Me in @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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Living on $1.26 a day is no way to live. Me in @BW.
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Where and to whom you are born determines how rich you are. Me in @BW.
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Most tax deductions favor the wealthy —let's get rid of them. Me in @BW.
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You can do a lot with small government –but if you want wealth you need big government –me in @BW.
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Its not just the US where Gay rights are on the march –in @BW.
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A rant against food aid and beltway bandits in @BW.
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A CGD blog. CGD has just posted a policy paper by Sarah Dykstra and me on Millennium Development Goal 8 (that would be the one on a global partnership for development&rdquo ) and lessons for post-2015. It is an updated version of a paper we submitted to the High-Level Panel on post-2015 (available here) …
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A CGD blog. I’m in full agreement with Todd that it’s great the Obama administration is focusing on energy in Africa (or at least, telling Ex-Im and OPIC to focus on energy in Africa). Todd spent a good deal of time in 2012&ndash 13 encouraging White House to make the issue a signature US fore…
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