Brigham Young University (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D)
Occupation
Development Economist
Notable work
Pritchett Test
Lant Pritchett (born 1959) is an American development economist. He is the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
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. In 1991 he said that he wrote the controversial Summers memo that supposedly advocated the exportation of polluting industries to poor countries, for which Summers was receiving widespread criticism. 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).[1] The book references research that Pritchett did with Michael Clemens and others at the CGD on the place premium, income per natural, and other related concepts. He argues that the most effective way the developed world can help impoverished countries is to allow increased numbers of low skilled laborers to immigrate 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. He is on the Board of Advisors for IDinsight.[2]
His proposal to monitor global poverty with a low and high poverty line has been adopted by some organizations including Our World in Data.[3][4]
^"Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility". Center For Global Development. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
^"IDinsight | Board of Advisors". Archived from the original on 2016-07-31. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
^Pritchett, Lant. "Monitoring progress on poverty: the case for a high global poverty line" (PDF). ODI.
^"No matter what extreme poverty line you choose, the share of people below that poverty line has declined globally". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
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