FP column in which I suggest the middle class is much like the other classes, only more in the middle.
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 (positive) review of Banerjee and Duflo's Poor Economics for Democracy.
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Got Cheap Milk? calls for cosmovorism –eating as if the planet mattered. I discussed the piece on the Kojo Nnamdi show. Not popular with the Seattle Times, amongst others (and on reflection some of the language in the middle of the piece was unnecessarily inflamatory). But the CattleNetwork liked it.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Insurgency suggests that the link between climate change and global warfare might be overblown.
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This Optimist column notes Mexico has the biggest rich-poor gap in the world, and that weak governance may be behind it –but recent changes suggest there might be hope for shrinking that gap.
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A column on culture –it matters to development, but it can change awfully fast under the right circumstances.
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An FP column on the US getting left behind on climate change.
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FP column calling for al-Shabab leaders to face the ICC.
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