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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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An FP column with a somewhat critical take on the UN Broadband Commission.
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A column about the need for a new marketing strategy for development –and millenarianism.
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A column about corruption perceptions, the gap between perceptions and reality, and the better ways of thinking about the development challenge of bribery.
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My FP column attacking Survival International for advertising techniques which should have been abandoned with Columbus. They didn't like it.
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My FP column: developing countries should ensure their trade policies maximize the variety of goods available to citizens. That means lowering barriers on goods they don't produce. Its a policy even import substituting industrializers can get behind.
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Laughing all the Way to the Bank, the week's FP column, suggests that money can't buy happiness –but maybe happiness can buy money. Its an updated (short) version of this paper.
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Why the growing triumph of democracy doesn't necessarily mean the end of history (yet). For Foreign Policy.
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An FP column on the wonders of oral rehydration therapy.
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Poetic title from Time for a story about the youth bulge and why it is a good thing signalling better things…
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