Charles Kenny

Nationalism Can’t Beat a Global Problem

For slate: America First can't beat a pandemic.

What to Do When You Can’t Prove DFI Additionality

A note for CGD with Todd Moss.  Answer: competition, make loans less attractive than market, use transparent benchmarks.

Direct cash payments work. We’re about to see how

In the Washington Post on the COVID-19 stimulus component that is giving cash directly to people.  

Pandemics Close Borders—And Keep them Closed

Leaders around the world have restricted nonessential travel to varying degrees, some sealing off their borders entirely, to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. In the past, these measures may have worked. But the history of disease-driven border lockdowns has some sobering lessons.  For Politico.