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Does SDR Recycling Impair Reserve Management?
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November 14, 2023
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Phonics and Foreign Aid: Can America Teach the World to Read?
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November 20, 2023
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Improving School Management of Violence in Peru
Gabriela Smarrelli
November 22, 2023
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Breaking Financing Barriers for a Just Climate Transition in Africa
Mahmoud Mohieldin et al.
November 17, 2023

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Strengthening the Addis Accord
Charles Kenny et al.
July 01, 2015
There are 20 pages covering the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. And while they are inevitably bubble-wrapped in diplo-speak and hat-tipping, there is a solid package of proposals nestled within. They cover domestic public finance, private finance, international public finance, trade, debt, technology, da...
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MDGs to SDGs: Have We Lost the Plot?
Charles Kenny
May 27, 2015
In September this year, world leaders will meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. Top of the agenda will be the passage of a resolution laying out global development goals for the fifteen years to 2030, covering progress in areas from poverty reduction to forestry preservation. The...
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A UN Declaration on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Charles Kenny
August 13, 2013
In 2000, the UN General Assembly endorsed the Millennium Declaration, a statement that provided the source and inspiration for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The effects of the declaration—and the MDGs—are difficult to measure, but it certainly framed important global discussio...
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Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development
Charles Kenny
December 08, 2011
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development is an ITU (UN International Telecommunications Union) and UNESCO–backed body set up to advocate for greater broadband access worldwide. The commission’s Declaration of Broadband Inclusion for All and other reports call for governments to support ubiq...
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Where Is the Virtue in the Middle Class?
Charles Kenny
November 11, 2011
It is widely agreed that the middle class is vital to progress because of its many virtues, but defining middle class in any meaningful way is difficult. And survey evidence suggests the middle class is not culturally unique, particularly socially progressive, or entrepreneurial.
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Technology and USAID: Three Cheers and a Thousand Cautions
Charles Kenny
June 15, 2011
Charles Kenny investigates the complex role development agencies have in promoting technology overseas.
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Bentham from the Crypt Once More: Politicians in Pursuit of Happiness
Charles Kenny
June 14, 2011
Subjective-well-being (SWB) polls help to illustrate some of the absurdities of taking income per capita as our measure of the ultimate good. Polls do not capture a be-all and end-all measure of the good. Considerable caution is required in the use of such polls for policymaking.

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