Charles Kenny

Improving the World

June 6, 2011 Uncategorized

Hour 1: In spite of almost continuous bad news, is life actually improving for people around the world? We’ll explore global advances in healthcare, education and more this hour with Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is “Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding–And How We Can Improve the World Even More” (Basic Books, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/e61d25e1-9486-4a0a-92e0-ff142d6dcaa2/KERA_Think_06-06-11_HR_1.mp3

An Exploding Global Population

May 10, 2010 Uncategorized

What does global population growth spell for human society? We’ll talk this hour with Washington, DC-based development economist Charles Kenny whose piece “Bomb Scare: The world has a lot of problems. An exploding population isn’t one of them” appears in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy Magazine.