Charles Kenny
Senior Fellow Center for Global Development, columnist Businessweek and Foreign Policy, author Getting Better & The Upside of Down
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Why a Tax the U.S. Hasn’t Embraced Has Found Favor in Much of the World
Value-added taxes are popular in many countries, especially those that are less affluent. The great advantage is a built-in feature that deters tax evasion, an emerging body of research shows.
Review: ‘Power Trip’ Ably Guides Us Through the History of Energy
Michael E. Webber’s new book examines humanity’s relationship to energy over time and how each transition affected not just what we produce but how we live.
Depression is increasing among Americans reaching middle age
Misery is spreading across all groups, but poorly educated white men remain the unhappiest
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Me in @TheEconomist : women men whites blacks & Latinos in US *all* get more miserable towards middle age. White middle aged men commit suicide at higher rates & economic factors may play a role, but they are still comparatively privileged economically.
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When Mike Bezos came to America
The father of Amazon's founder tells his story of fleeing Castro's Cuba and finding family in his new country.
Tanzania Was East Africa's Strongest Democracy. Then Came "The Bulldozer."
Tanzania’s president has put fighting corruption at the center of his agenda. But is it worth the suppression of civil liberties?
Mimi Alemayehou
Mimi Alemayehou is Managing Director at Black Rhino Group, an infrastructure platform focused on the development and acquisition of energy and infrastructure projects across Africa. Previously, she was the Executive Vice President of the Overseas...
Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction
In this study, we used large-scale representative panel data to disentangle the between-person and within-person relations linking adolescent social media use and well-being. We found that social media use is not, in and of itself, a strong...
Where Internally Displaced People Live & Three Ways To Support Their Economic Success
There are over 68.5 million forcibly displaced people in the world, including about 40 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have moved because of conflict or other drivers, including disasters, economic instability, and development...
From the A bomb to the AI bomb, nuclear weapons' problematic evolution
From autonomous nuclear submarines to algorithms detecting a threat, to robot-guided high-speed missiles, artificial intelligence could revolutionise nuclear weapons – risking some profound ethical conundrums – a recent report reveals.
Criminal Aliens Are Not Surging the Border
Although the current immigration issues on the border present challenges, they do not present serious criminal challenges.
USAID takes aim at gender pay gaps in contracting decisions
USAID is seeking regulatory changes for the criteria used to determine salaries. The agency's leaders hope the move will help narrow gender pay gaps within its development projects.
Bright Simons on Sounds Robotic: A CGD Podcast
In this episode of Sounds Robotic, host Charles Kenny talks with Bright Simons, founder of the mPedigree Network and VP at the IMANI Center for Policy and Education, about the problems with the “leapfrogging” narrative of innovation in frontier...
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.@BBSimons on Sounds Robotic --fascinating on the barriers to leapfrogging in Africa...
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Terrorists by Immigration Status and Nationality: A Risk Analysis, 1975–2017
Terrorism is a hazard to human life and material prosperity that should be addressed in a sensible manner whereby the benefits of actions taken to contain it outweigh the costs. Foreign-born terrorists were responsible for 86 percent (or 3,037) of...
Americans Don’t Trust Their Fellow Americans
The problem with American society is not necessarily a mistrust of government.
“All in the Family, State Capture in Tunisia” : Question and Answers
“All in the Family, State Capture in Tunisia” : Question and Answers
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@thehill @WorldBank @IFC_org @RepMaxineWaters The World Bank has often highlighted the costs of crony capitalism where a few favored firms benefit from secretive government support -see for eg fantastic work on Tunisia under Ben Ali.
worldbank.org/en/news/featur…
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Fighting crony capitalism at the World Bank
If the World Bank Group sends the signal that secret, bespoke deals are an acceptable way to subsidize, the model is likely to spread.
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Me in @thehill on Fighting Crony Capitalism at the @WorldBank...
...on the subject of @IFC_org
use of aid to subsidize private firms doing projects in developing countries using an opaque, non-competitive approach that doesn't involve beneficiaries (1/n)
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