Senior fellow Charles Kenny was featured in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Bill Gates on the success of foreign aid.
From the Article
Stepping into the public square to announce that foreign aid is important and effective can be lonely work. As someone who has attempted to make that case over the past decade, I can assure you that the world is often eager to hear just the opposite.
But aid money can and does work. It improves people's lives and makes the world a better and safer place.
Fortunately, an elegant and deeply researched new book has come along to reframe the debate and tip it, I hope, in a new direction. The title says it all: "Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding—and How We Can Improve the World Even More."
The book's author is Charles Kenny, a senior economist on leave from the World Bank and a fellow at the Center for Global Development and the New America Foundation. He writes a weekly column for ForeignPolicy.com as "The Optimist," but he is a realist, too, and he brings an economist's eye to this complicated topic.