Lant Pritchett

Lant Pritchett

Lant Pritchett (born 1959) is an American developmental economist.

He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics, after serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina (1978-1980). He graduated from the Massachusetts 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 first Copenhagen Consensus. From 2000 to 2004 he was a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard 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.

ee also

Summers memo

Further reading

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last=DeParle
first=Jason
title=Should We Globalize Labor Too?
newspaper=The New York Times
date=June 10, 2007
year=2007
month=June
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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
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date=October 30, 2004
year=2004
title=How to save the world
periodical=Economist
issue=8399
pages=80-80
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External links

* [http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Lant_Pritchett Lant Pritchett's web page at the Kennedy School of Government]

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