New blog: Use New Philanthropy for a Maximum Vaccination Strategy Hopefully there's about to be a lot more effective-altruist-adjacent philanthropic money around. My pitch on spending it: vaccinate everyone against everything all the time....
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Charles Kenny
Профиль VivelyFellow at the Center for Global Development, author of Getting Better and The Plague Cycle. (CGD doesn't have institutional positions, so don't blame it for mine).
This seems... perfectly reasonable? World Bank will lend up to $2bn to China over next five years, but probably not lend after that (by which time the country should be clearly into high income status). finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
World Bank confirms plan to phase out China lending by 2031The World Bank on Thursday confirmed that it plans to phase out its lending to China by 2031, according to the organization's new country partnership framework (CPF) for the world's second-largest eco...finance.yahoo.comNew article for the German journal Welternährung: How Emigration Can Lift Developing Countries www.welthungerhilfe.org/global-food-...
How Emigration Can Lift Developing CountriesDevelopment models based on industrialisation and export are a thing of the past. In future, strategies for the migration of labor are required - which benefit both countries of origin and high income...www.welthungerhilfe.orgSurvey suggests 60 percent of funded startup founders in Africa have studied or worked outside Africa. Emigration is a growth strategy. www.nber.org/papers/w35261
Startups in AfricaFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...www.nber.orgAll the trade not aid language rings more than a bit hollow when you are slapping tariffs left and right and stopping people coming to make deals.
PBS NewsThe almost 50 U.S. embassies and consulates that are processing visa applications will be reduced to 20 in the coming weeks, according to three U.S. officials and an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. https://to.pbs.org/4dITud7
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National Foundation for American PolicyNew Research: ICE arrests harm local economies by reducing consumer spending. @profzeke.bsky.social: “The economic damage done to local communities by this administration’s approach to immigration enforcement is widespread, indiscriminate and persistent.” @mclem.org www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Free MovementLong thread alert 🧵 1. UK universities increasingly market start-up hubs and incubators to international students. But many arrive to find their immigration conditions prohibit the very activities those programmes encourage. We look at the student visa trap.
WBG hasn't been worried about conflicts of interest between IFC and World Bank because the two “are separate legal entities, with distinct objectives, management, information flows and governance processes.” ...not any more. So, what's the institution doing about that?
Charles KennyBlog: Too Cavalier About Conflicts of Interest at the World Bank? The Private Sector Investment Lab and the IFC-World Bank unit mergers both raise concerns about conflict of interest policies at the World Bank Group.
Enjoyed writing this for the new magazine In Development: Where’s My Ministry For Emigration? On the new age of mass migration and what it could mean for the developing world. indevelopmentmag.com/wheres-my-mi...
Where’s My Ministry For Emigration? – In Developmentevidence and argument for a developing worldindevelopmentmag.comICE activity => unemployment for the US born. For every immigrant ICE arrests, one US-born worker loses their job. Effect is concentrated amongst non-college educated. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
Heightened ICE enforcement harms US-born workers, shrinks workforceA new study shows that heightened immigration enforcement reduces employment opportunities for some U.S. born men while shrinking the overall workforce,www.colorado.eduRelying on emigration as a growth strategy in this global climate risky, but also true of trade. And as the rich world ages, not convinced it will be harder to find a new place to move than a new place to export. One opportunity is expanding in aggregate, the other shrinking.
Charles KennyObviously I'm more optimistic about the potential upside, but I'd definitely agree that migration as a growth strategy both carries risks and isn't primarily about absolute numbers.
Obviously I'm more optimistic about the potential upside, but I'd definitely agree that migration as a growth strategy both carries risks and isn't primarily about absolute numbers.
Gavin JacksonInspired by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social new paper on emigration as a development strategy I visited the Indian state of Kerala, which has certainly escaped poverty by sending expats to the Gulf but doesn’t look like it will get rich with that approach. economist.com/finance-and-...