October 07, 2014
Amid the swathe of spectators who harp on the failures of global development stands one economist who begs to differ: Charles Kenny.
Kenny argues that global development is actually succeeding – and he has the data to prove it.
A senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, columnist for BusinessWeek, and contributing editor to Foreign Policy, Kenny spent more than 20 years researching growth patterns as a researcher for the World Bank.
His conclusion? Income isn’t a catch-all mechanism that explains why certain countries lag behind others. But we can clearly see things are getting better.