Charles Kenny: 3 books
Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against...
The Upside of Down
Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to entirely...
Results Not Receipts
Counting the Right Things in Aid and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health to deliver basic healthcare to 90 percent of the population, at a cost of $4.50 a head. The program played a vital role in improving the country's health; the...