Charles Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What drives broadband traffic
Regression discontinuity analysis of Gavi's impact on vaccination rates
Millennium Goals Miss African Progress
The international community has hailed impressive strides toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, but Africa lags because of a late start, despite its more recent successes. Will the next set of goals avoid arbitrary and unrealistic targets
Disaster risk reduction in developing countries: Costs, Benefits and Institutions
Some 60,000 people worldwide die annually in natural disasters, mostly due to the collapse of buildings in earthquakes, and primarily in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can eliminate almost completely the risk of such deaths. Why is this? The solutions are expensive and technically demanding, so their cost-benefit ratio often is unfavourable as compared to other interventions. Nonetheless, ther…
A Trio of Perspectives on Corruption: Bias, Speed Money and "Grand Theft Infrastructure"
A number of recent survey articles express hope that new data from enterprise surveys would shed new light on corruption complementing the corruption perception index by Transparency International. The paper explores this using the World Bank's Enterprise Survey data globally and not just the data on Eastern Europe and Central Asia that have been used before. The authors find that in general the Enterprise Survey data provide aggregate views on c…
Does Governance Matter
The institutional theory of development appears to have swept all before it. Those traditionalists who argue for the centrality of investment for growth are told that institutions determine its quality and extent. Unreconstructed supporters of the primacy of policies are schooled that governance lies behind good policy selection and strong implementation. All that is left to discuss is “what causes strong institutions,” to which the answer appear…
The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge, and Global Health
Why Do People Die In Earthquakes? The Costs, Benefits And Institutions Of Disaster Risk Reduction In Developing Countries
Every year, around 60,000 people die worldwide in natural disasters. The majority of the deaths are caused by building collapse in earthquakes, and the great majority occurs in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can almost completely eliminate the risk of such deaths. Why is this? The engineering solutions are both expensive and technically demanding, so that the benefit-cost ratio of such solutio…
Measuring Corruption in Infrastructure: Evidence from Transition and Developing Countries
This paper examines what we can say about the extent and impact of corruption in infrastructure using existing evidence. There is evidence that most perceptions measures appear to be very weak proxies for the actual extent of corruption in the infrastructure sector, largely (but inaccurately) measuring petty rather than grand corruption. Survey evidence is more reliable, but limited as a tool for differentiating countries in terms of access to in…
Grand Corruption In Utilities
"This paper discusses mechanisms of grand corruption in private sector utility provision in developing countries. By the term "grand corruption," the authors abstract from the petty corruption that consumers experience - for example, when firms and individuals pay bribes to get water delivery or an electricity connection. The paper focuses on decisions made at the government level involving private sector management, ownership, and provision of u…
The Next Decade of ICT Development: Access, Applications, and the Forces of Convergence 1
The last decade has seen an incredible expansion in access to ICTs, as well as an explosion in applications. Driving this revolution have been new disruptive technologies exploited by new business models, in turn enabled by policy and regulatory reforms. The technologies driving change in the next decade may well encourage a further blurring of the line between access, industries and applications, leading to new challenges for the sustainability …
The Trouble with the MDGS: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met by 2015, even if huge increases in development assistance materialize. The MDGs are a set of quantitative, time-bound targets for indicators such as poverty, education and mortality in developing countries adopted unanimously by the UN in 2000. However, the rates of progress required by many of the goals are at the edges of or beyond historical precedent. At the same time, there appea…
What is effective aid? How would donors allocate it
Is there an anticorruption agenda in utilities
Construction, Corruption, And Developing Countries
The construction industry accounts for about one-third of gross capital formation. Governments have major roles as clients, regulators, and owners of construction companies. The industry is consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt: large payments to gain or alter contracts and circumvent regulations are common. The impact of corruption goes beyond bribe payments to poor quality construction of infrastructure with low economic returns alongs…
Internet governance on a dollar a day
The submissions of ICANN and ISOC to the WSIS suggested Internet governance was purely about technical standardisation, addresses, domains and some service-related issues. Under this definition, there is little for poor people to worry about. At the same time, the term 'Internet governance' in an era of convergence is perhaps particularly unhelpful in the context of developing countries and especially poor people in those countries. It is in the …
The Trouble with the MDGS: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
Measuring And Reducing The Impact Of Corruption In Infrastructure
This paper examines what we can say about the extent and impact of corruption in infrastructure in developing countries using existing evidence. It looks at different approaches to estimating the extent of corruption and reports on the results of such studies. It suggests that there is considerable evidence that most existing perceptions measures appear to be very weak proxies for the actual extent of corruption in the infrastructure sector, larg…
Does Development Make You Happy? Subjective Wellbeing And Economic Growth In Developing Countries
Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging
A short review of information and communication technologies and basic education in LDCs—what is useful, what is sustainable
Development's False Divide
Net Gains
What Do We Know About Economic Growth? Or, Why Don't We Know Very Much
Why aren't countries rich: Weak states and bad neighbourhoods
This article challenges a common viewpoint that the policy choices made by state leaders are central to explanations of economic growth. It argues that there are two possible flaws in this viewpoint. First, that state leaders have a free choice in policy decisions; second, that it is policies that in large part determine growth rates. Using a set of variables designed to capture the weakness of the policy autonomy of the state and possible non‐po…
Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging
What Do We Know About Economic Growth? Or, Why Don't We Know Very Much
The Trouble with the MDGS: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
Does Development Make You Happy? Subjective Wellbeing And Economic Growth In Developing Countries
Disaster risk reduction in developing countries: Costs, Benefits and Institutions
Some 60,000 people worldwide die annually in natural disasters, mostly due to the collapse of buildings in earthquakes, and primarily in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can eliminate almost completely the risk of such deaths. Why is this? The solutions are expensive and technically demanding, so their cost-benefit ratio often is unfavourable as compared to other interventions. Nonetheless, ther…
Stock markets in Africa: Emerging lions or white elephants
The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge, and Global Health
Development's False Divide
Regression discontinuity analysis of Gavi's impact on vaccination rates
Does Governance Matter
The institutional theory of development appears to have swept all before it. Those traditionalists who argue for the centrality of investment for growth are told that institutions determine its quality and extent. Unreconstructed supporters of the primacy of policies are schooled that governance lies behind good policy selection and strong implementation. All that is left to discuss is “what causes strong institutions,” to which the answer appear…
What is effective aid? How would donors allocate it
Is there an anticorruption agenda in utilities
Senegal and the Entropy Theory of Development
Stock markets in Africa: Emerging lions or white elephants
Why aren't countries rich: Weak states and bad neighbourhoods
This article challenges a common viewpoint that the policy choices made by state leaders are central to explanations of economic growth. It argues that there are two possible flaws in this viewpoint. First, that state leaders have a free choice in policy decisions; second, that it is policies that in large part determine growth rates. Using a set of variables designed to capture the weakness of the policy autonomy of the state and possible non‐po…
What Do We Know About Economic Growth? Or, Why Don't We Know Very Much
A short review of information and communication technologies and basic education in LDCs—what is useful, what is sustainable
Development's False Divide
Net Gains
Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging
Does Development Make You Happy? Subjective Wellbeing And Economic Growth In Developing Countries
Measuring And Reducing The Impact Of Corruption In Infrastructure
This paper examines what we can say about the extent and impact of corruption in infrastructure in developing countries using existing evidence. It looks at different approaches to estimating the extent of corruption and reports on the results of such studies. It suggests that there is considerable evidence that most existing perceptions measures appear to be very weak proxies for the actual extent of corruption in the infrastructure sector, larg…
Construction, Corruption, And Developing Countries
The construction industry accounts for about one-third of gross capital formation. Governments have major roles as clients, regulators, and owners of construction companies. The industry is consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt: large payments to gain or alter contracts and circumvent regulations are common. The impact of corruption goes beyond bribe payments to poor quality construction of infrastructure with low economic returns alongs…
Internet governance on a dollar a day
The submissions of ICANN and ISOC to the WSIS suggested Internet governance was purely about technical standardisation, addresses, domains and some service-related issues. Under this definition, there is little for poor people to worry about. At the same time, the term 'Internet governance' in an era of convergence is perhaps particularly unhelpful in the context of developing countries and especially poor people in those countries. It is in the …
The Trouble with the MDGS: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
Grand Corruption In Utilities
"This paper discusses mechanisms of grand corruption in private sector utility provision in developing countries. By the term "grand corruption," the authors abstract from the petty corruption that consumers experience - for example, when firms and individuals pay bribes to get water delivery or an electricity connection. The paper focuses on decisions made at the government level involving private sector management, ownership, and provision of u…
The Next Decade of ICT Development: Access, Applications, and the Forces of Convergence 1
The last decade has seen an incredible expansion in access to ICTs, as well as an explosion in applications. Driving this revolution have been new disruptive technologies exploited by new business models, in turn enabled by policy and regulatory reforms. The technologies driving change in the next decade may well encourage a further blurring of the line between access, industries and applications, leading to new challenges for the sustainability …
The Trouble with the MDGS: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met by 2015, even if huge increases in development assistance materialize. The MDGs are a set of quantitative, time-bound targets for indicators such as poverty, education and mortality in developing countries adopted unanimously by the UN in 2000. However, the rates of progress required by many of the goals are at the edges of or beyond historical precedent. At the same time, there appea…
What is effective aid? How would donors allocate it
Is there an anticorruption agenda in utilities
Why Do People Die In Earthquakes? The Costs, Benefits And Institutions Of Disaster Risk Reduction In Developing Countries
Every year, around 60,000 people die worldwide in natural disasters. The majority of the deaths are caused by building collapse in earthquakes, and the great majority occurs in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can almost completely eliminate the risk of such deaths. Why is this? The engineering solutions are both expensive and technically demanding, so that the benefit-cost ratio of such solutio…
Measuring Corruption in Infrastructure: Evidence from Transition and Developing Countries
This paper examines what we can say about the extent and impact of corruption in infrastructure using existing evidence. There is evidence that most perceptions measures appear to be very weak proxies for the actual extent of corruption in the infrastructure sector, largely (but inaccurately) measuring petty rather than grand corruption. Survey evidence is more reliable, but limited as a tool for differentiating countries in terms of access to in…
A Trio of Perspectives on Corruption: Bias, Speed Money and "Grand Theft Infrastructure"
A number of recent survey articles express hope that new data from enterprise surveys would shed new light on corruption complementing the corruption perception index by Transparency International. The paper explores this using the World Bank's Enterprise Survey data globally and not just the data on Eastern Europe and Central Asia that have been used before. The authors find that in general the Enterprise Survey data provide aggregate views on c…
Does Governance Matter
The institutional theory of development appears to have swept all before it. Those traditionalists who argue for the centrality of investment for growth are told that institutions determine its quality and extent. Unreconstructed supporters of the primacy of policies are schooled that governance lies behind good policy selection and strong implementation. All that is left to discuss is “what causes strong institutions,” to which the answer appear…
The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge, and Global Health
Disaster risk reduction in developing countries: Costs, Benefits and Institutions
Some 60,000 people worldwide die annually in natural disasters, mostly due to the collapse of buildings in earthquakes, and primarily in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can eliminate almost completely the risk of such deaths. Why is this? The solutions are expensive and technically demanding, so their cost-benefit ratio often is unfavourable as compared to other interventions. Nonetheless, ther…
Millennium Goals Miss African Progress
The international community has hailed impressive strides toward the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, but Africa lags because of a late start, despite its more recent successes. Will the next set of goals avoid arbitrary and unrealistic targets
Economics (22 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Public economics (8 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (7 works) · Developing country (7 works) · International Development and Aid (7 works)