- Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett (born 1959) is an American developmental
economist .He was born in
Utah in1959 and raised inBoise ,Idaho . He graduated fromBrigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics, after serving a mission forThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints inArgentina (1978-1980). He graduated from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 with a PhD in Economics.He worked for the
World Bank from 1988 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2007. He was a contributor to the firstCopenhagen Consensus . From 2000 to 2004 he was a lecturer in public policy at theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government atHarvard University . He is currently a professor of the practice of economic development at the Kennedy School of Government.In 2006 he published his first monograph " Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility " (Center for Global Development, pub) [ "Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility" (Center for Global Development, pub, 2006), available for free download [http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/10174] ] . He argues that the most effective way the developed world can help impoverished countries is to allow vastly increased numbers of low skilled laborers as guest workers. He describes what he sees as an immoral cycle of using ever more sophisticated technology to reduce labor while billions of willing workers live in extreme poverty.
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Summers memo Further reading
*Citation
last=DeParle
first=Jason
title=Should We Globalize Labor Too?
newspaper=The New York Times
date=June 10 ,2007
year=2007
month=June .
*Citation
last=Flanders
first=Stephanie
title=Ideas & Trends; In the Shadow of AIDS, a World of Other Problems
newspaper=The New York Times
date=June 24 ,2001
year=2001
month=June .
*Citation
date=October 30 ,2004
year=2004
title=How to save the world
periodical=Economist
issue=8399
pages=80-80.External links
* [http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Lant_Pritchett Lant Pritchett's web page at the Kennedy School of Government]
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