Charles Kenny
Senior Fellow Center for Global Development, author Getting Better & The Upside of Down. Tweets are personal opinions.
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Charles Kenny
12/19/1682: Ferrara suspends trade with Thüringen and Hessen due to the presence of plague in the cities. The plague led to a huge increase in government regulation of the movement of people and goods, as well as city sanitation.
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2020 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Charles Kenny
Nationally, voters have now cast 50.2% of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election.
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On Aid and Climate, Don’t Make the Poor Pay Twice
A few months ago, the experts at the OECD who decide what’s in and what’s out when it comes to what counts as official development assistance (ODA)
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Charles Kenny
Related blog: On Aid and Climate, Don’t Make the Poor Pay Twice. Poor countries need income to adapt from climate change that will hit them worse. Don't divert aid from them to mitigation projects -especially as it is utterly insufficient to the task.
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Official Development Assistance, Global Public Goods, and Implications for Climate Finance
Is research into a Covid-19 vaccine a suitable use of Official Development Assistance (ODA)? This note attempts to tease apart a discussion of “is this ODA” from “is this a global public good?” and then separate out again “is this ODA and/or a...
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A paper by me on global public goods and aid (ODA). Lots of good things for the planet that governments *should* support still *shouldn't* count as ODA, including R&D for a Covid vaccine & climate projects without significant local benefits.
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Labor Shortage Could Be The Next Big Challenge For Racing, Industry Experts Say - Horse Racing News | Paulick Report
The racing industry had a number of hurdles ahead of it before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Reducing fatal breakdowns, creating a national regulatory body, attracting new owners and horseplayers, along with many other challenges, were all at the...
Charles Kenny
"It's no secret that [US] trainers and farms have had difficulty in recent years accessing H-2A and H-2B visa workers to fill seasonal needs for grooms, hotwalkers, exercise riders, and farm workers"
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New England Courant 8/7/1721 on smallpox variolation. Town leaders "Unanimously agreed that it was rash and dubious being entirely new, not in the least vouched or recommended (being merely published, in the Philosophick Transactions by way of Amusement)"
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Zanzibar opposition says 3 shot dead by police in poll clashes
Police fired teargas and live rounds, and brutally beat a young man in Garagara.
Trump mocking Biden on clean energy is everything wrong with today's GOP
Climate change should be a Republican issue
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Charles Kenny
Disposal of the dead during the 1835 cholera epidemic in Palermo.
With what respect the bodies of the dead are treated has been a measure of social cohesion during pandemics since Thucydides wrote about the plague of Athens two and a half millennia ago.
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Stephan Klasen Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Global South
Last week, the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Göttingen posted a call for two postdoctoral fellowships in honor of Stephan Klasen, a development economist who has written extensively about gender inequality in the Global...
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Charles Kenny
A wonderful blog by @vijramachandran on Stephan Klasen. He's achieved so much as a scholar (165 articles & chapters, & 8 books!) and as a teacher. Do watch some of the video of his farewell remarks that Vij links to.
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Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
Charles Kenny
US exports gang violence to El Salvador. Individuals living under gang control have significantly less education, material wellbeing, and income than individuals living only 50 meters away but outside of gang territory.
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Charles Kenny
Construction of the Wick Lane Sewer, London 1859 -part of Bazalgette's 450 miles of new sewers that took 318 million bricks and nearly a million cubic yards of concrete to build, but saved London from major cholera epidemics.
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We'll pay for quarantine so long as we get our workers back, says palm oil body
The Malaysian Palm Oil Association says the current labour shortage is causing a 25% loss in palm oil yield.
Charles Kenny
"Malaysia, the world’s second largest palm oil producer, relies on workers from countries such as Indonesia and Bangladesh. They account for 84% of its plantation workforce. When the pandemic struck ... thousands of foreign workers left..."
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Smallpox rides a bicycle from Progreso across a quarantine line towards Mérida in Mexico in 1879. Smallpox was wiped out in Mexico in the 1950s, in the rest of the Americas by 1971 and worldwide by 1980.
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CM: Sarawak experiencing labour shortage of 5,000 workers in construction sector | Borneo Post Online
KUCHING: Sarawak is short of more than 5,000 workers in the construction sectors due to the state’s Covid-19 travel restrictions on foreigners, said Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg. “As you know before the Movement Control Order...
Charles Kenny
"Sarawak [Malaysia] is short of more than 5,000 workers in the construction sectors due to the state’s Covid-19 travel restrictions on foreigners"
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Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout
"An engineering problem that, when solved, solves energy."
The Klasen Fellowship - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Charles Kenny
The London Board of Health Hunting After Cases Like Cholera, 1832. The dominant theory was Cholera spread by foul air (miasma) : "the scent lies strong here" says one, "oh if I can but find a smell" another.
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Shortage of poultry workers could hit Christmas dinner
There are not enough EU workers to process the meat, says the British Poultry Council.
Charles Kenny
UK "Christmas dinner could be ruined this year as supplies of traditional turkeys could run out...
The problem is a shortage of skilled workers to process the meat... 1,000 EU workers needed...."
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