Africa's awful business environment shows how important government is for private sector success. Column for @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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@BW column on the arms treaty –for which things don't look great.
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@BW column on smoking and trade treaties.
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For Businessweek. Answer: nothing.
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For Foreign Policy: China and Thailand are rich by historical standards.
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For Businessweek. We've halved child mortality over the last twenty years, can we do better over the next twenty?
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For Businessweek, on why the IMF's governance needs reforming.
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MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe? is a working paper for CGD, written with Andy Sumner and Jonathan Karver. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are widely cited as the primary yardstick against which advances in international development efforts are to be judged. At the same time, the Goals will be met or missed by 2015. It is not too early to start asking what's next? This paper builds on a discussion that has already begun to address potential approaches, goals, and target indicators to help inform the process of developing a second generation of MDGs or ‘MDGs 2.0.’ The paper outlines potential goal areas based on the original Millennium Declaration, the timeframe for any MDGs 2.0 and attempts to calculate some reasonable targets associated with those goal areas. I wrote about the next round of MDGs for UNICEF here, and summarized this paper here. Also discussed the topic with the FT here.
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The spread of over-eating worldwide and its consequences, for Businessweek.
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