The world has halved poverty since 1990– or better. The optimist column.
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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Want to keep America top nation? Import more Americans. For FP.
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A piece on global inequality for the FP print edition. The print version has an error –it says most Americans and Europeans are in the top one percent –that's not nealry true (only about 70 million people worldwide are in the top one percent so it is statistically impossible). The great majority are in the top ten percent, though…
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More birth control = fewer abortions. For FP.
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Americans should get out more. For FP.
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An Optimist piece on the decline of violent crime worldwide.
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In which I argue that there are better cheaper options for US undergraduates overseas. For FP.
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A piece on how we aren't running out of natural resources —including oil— for BusinessWeek. Provoked some reaction. I do think I could have better explained peak oil (a flow measure) versus reserves/resources. But the point remains: bigger threat is consuming too much, not running out…
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Global deforestation has slowed –how do we keep it down as the economy recovers? For FP.
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