Charles Kenny

Dec 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Charles Kenny

Book Review In Praise of Scepticism: Trust But Verify, by Pippa Norris (Oxford University Press, New York, 2022), pp. 305 First published: 05 December 2024 No abstract is available for this article.

Aug 13, 2024 | vir.com.vn | Scott Morris |Charles Kenny

The region’s governments have focused on investing in transport, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure, alongside industries that would employ more people and make them more productive. But as demographic dividends turn to deficits, a new play book is needed, one that invests squarely in people over places, and in particular, one that prioritises greater labour mobility across the region.

May 1, 2024 | cgdev.org | Charles Kenny

The World Bank’s extreme poverty line has been a huge marketing success, motivating widespread discussion of global poverty. At the same time, it has growing weaknesses. For measuring progress, we want a fixed-definition indicator. The extreme poverty line is not that. For measuring or guaranteeing access of a basic bundle of “economic goods and services” we want to measure (potential) access to those services. The extreme poverty line doesn’t do that.

May 1, 2024 | reliefweb.int | Charles Kenny

Attachments Download Report (PDF | 1 MB) By Charles KennyThe World Bank’s extreme poverty line has been a huge marketing success, motivating widespread discussion of global poverty. At the same time, it has growing weaknesses. For measuring progress, we want a fixed-definition indicator. The extreme poverty line is not that. For measuring or guaranteeing access of a basic bundle of “economic goods and services,” we want to measure (potential) access to those services.

Apr 16, 2024 | cato.org | Charles Kenny |Scott Lincicome |Sophia Bagley |Joy Buchanan

Globalization has powered worldwide prosperity and well‐​being. Exports have contributed to rapid growth in many cases, such as the UK’s industrial revolution and the performance of the “” countries, including South Korea and Taiwan. Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar’s essay for Cato’s Defending Globalization project reports that India’s per capita income rose from $304 in 1991 to an estimated $2,600 in 2023, and that was driven in part by a considerable growth in trade.