Why the declining cost and complexity of eye care is a huge boon for the developing world –the latest for FP.
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.
-
A CGD blog.
-
-
The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free is a CGD Working Paper. The health of the world’s population—including those in the poorest countries—has improved more in the past 100 years than ever before. The improvement is largely a result of the development and spread of cheap, effective technologies (such as vaccines). Other factors, such as national wealth and institutional development, appear to be secondary, suggesting that exogenous models of development may still be relevant in explain gains in global health. In this paper, background to Kenny’s book Getting Better, the authors investigate the cross-country determinants of health improvements and describe the implications for development policy. In short, improving health need not be expensive. Even very poor countries can make great strides with good technologies and good delivery, but it may take time. Historical trends suggest we should not expect too much too quickly. A later version has been published in World Development.
-
Worried about spiralling US health costs? Outsource care to Thailand. This week's Optimist column.
-
The Optimist celebrates the seven (and then the ten) billion people on the planet.
-
An FP column with a somewhat critical take on the UN Broadband Commission.
-
A column about the need for a new marketing strategy for development –and millenarianism.
-
A column about corruption perceptions, the gap between perceptions and reality, and the better ways of thinking about the development challenge of bribery.
-
My FP column attacking Survival International for advertising techniques which should have been abandoned with Columbus. They didn't like it.
Charles Kenny 