Center for Global Development

Up Next: Oil2Cash in the Arab World
Can Arab revolutionaries in Libya and elsewhere overcome the oil curse? Arvind Subramanian explains how oil-to-cash transfers can help build prosperous, democratic societies. Oil to the People! Photo: flickr user Crethi Plethi / cc

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Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding
Charles Kenny argues in his new book and two CGD essays that the story of the modern world is one of widespread and historically unprecedented progress, even for the world’s poorest people.

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Just in Time: Climate Vulnerability Index
South Korea proposes using a vulnerability index to allocate funds for climate adaptation to those countries most in need. David Wheeler welcomes Seoul’s initiative and explains how his new index fits the bill. Photo: Abdul Majeed Goraya / IRIN

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CGD's Policy Blogs

Views From the Center If Colin Firth Had Written a Book, It Would Read Like This: Getting Better - Feb 28 Is the Malawi Maize Miracle a Good Example for Others? - Feb 28 One Step Closer to Extractive Industry Transparency - Feb 28 Mark Malloch-Brown Pursues a New International Politics - Feb 25 More Posts		Global Health Policy Secretary Clinton on the FY2012 Budget: Managing Global Health Expectations? - Feb 28 Hard Choices on Health Care at Home and Away - Feb 25 Will the U.S. Lead on Global Health? Start with Vaccination - Feb 17 The Ethics of Material Incentives for HIV Prevention - Feb 11 More Posts
Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance U.S. Budget Woes Threaten MCC Money and Model - Feb 28 H.R. 1 – Cuts Like a Knife - Feb 24 New U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan Representative Is Head Firefighter AND Head Gardener - Feb 18 Reading the Congressional Record So You Don’t Have To…And Arriving at Surprising Conclusions - Feb 16 More Posts		Microfinance Open Book Yunus Fired? - Mar 2 U.S. Government Pressure on Behalf of Yunus - Feb 28 Reworked Chapter 4 - Feb 27 IrresponsAbility - Feb 26 More Posts

New Publications

Failed States, Vicious Cycles and a Proposal

Raghuram G. Rajan
Aid for a Purpose: Show Me the Goal, Then Show Me the Money
Promoting Universal Transparency in Extractive Industries: How and Why?

Theodore H. Moran

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Charles Kenny

Senior Fellow

Charles Kenny's current work covers the demand side of development, the role of technology in quality-of-life improvements, and governance and anticorruption in aid. He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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