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.
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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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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Written with CGD Visiting Fellow Andy Sumner, this piece for the Guardian explores the phenomenon of the vanishing low-income country.
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No, not a column about George Bush Senior: instead, I'm suggesting donors focus more on small scale companies and less on big public utilities to get modern energy services to poor people.
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An opinion piece for Bloomberg Businessweek arguing that the only moral course is to hire illegals –it isn't bad for Americans and it is great for them, so what's not to love. I talked about it on a few radio stations, including David Serota's show. Immigration does bring out the crazy, but here's a reasonably measured response in the Culpeper VA paper.
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Technology and USAID is a CGD essay discussing Raj Shah's efforts to promote technology in development. It is a great idea, but it carries risks well illustrated by his example of a tablet computer changing farming practices and education in rural West Africa.
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