The Optimist
Charles Kenny is senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, and author, most recently, of Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More. "The Optimist," his column for ForeignPolicy.com, runs weekly. Seismic Inequality
Rich countries have gotten very good at keeping people alive in earthquakes. But that doesn't mean poor countries should try to emulate them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 14, 2011
Iron Curtain Call
Mikhail Gorbachev helped end the Cold War. He also did more than anyone else to end the rest of them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Corps Concerns
In an age of globe-trotting American college kids, ubiquitous Internet access, and cell phone networks that reach even sub-Saharan cattle herders, does the world still need the Peace Corps?
BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Invasion of the Alien Cattle
Why does the United States allow more foreign cattle to immigrate than it does people?
BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 14, 2011
The Poor Are Getting … Richer
It really is getting better -- even for the bottom billion.
BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Fiber Cons
You don't need to be superfast to be super-competitive -- but try telling that to the governments sinking billions into fiber-optic networks.
BY CHARLES KENNY, ROBERT KENNY | JANUARY 31, 2011
After the Break Up
Sudan has 99 problems, but secession isn't one.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 25, 2011
Big Is Beautiful
Financial access is key to helping the world's poor -- and tech-savvy big banks, not microcreditors, are our best hope for providing it.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 18, 2011
Great Expectations
The biggest problem with post-disaster relief efforts like Haiti's is the unreasonable ambitions we have for them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 10, 2011
Forget the Aftershocks
Plenty of factors are holding back Haiti's development, but last year's earthquake isn't one of them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 3, 2011
Publish or Perish
Private contractors cost taxpayers worldwide untold billions in corruption, inefficiency, and mismanagement. But the solution isn't getting rid of them -- it's showing the rest of us their paperwork.
BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 20, 2010
Let There Be Light
How a new kind of bulb will transform the developing world.
BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 13, 2010
What Resource Curse?
Is it really true that underground riches lead to aboveground woes? No, not really.
BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 6, 2010
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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