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Charles Kenny

Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, author of Getting Better –Why Global Development is Succeeding and The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West. Twitter: @charlesjkenny

Latest articles by Charles Kenny

The Big Idea
9 ways the world got a lot better in 20179 ways the world got a lot better in 2017
The Big Idea

It seemed awful. But overall, it was a great year for humanity.

By Charles Kenny
Politics
An NYT op-ed argued for making China poorer to make Americans richer. That’s appalling.An NYT op-ed argued for making China poorer to make Americans richer. That’s appalling.
Politics
Why the World Bank is changing the definition of the word “poor”Why the World Bank is changing the definition of the word “poor”
Politics

$1.25 a day just became $1.90 a day.

By Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur

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