Bøger af Lant Pritchett

Based on discussions with over 60,000 people across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book provides a bottom-up view on the processes and institutions that play key roles in poverty escapes, asking how these help or hinder people in their quest to move out of poverty. It argues for poverty-reducing strategies informed by local realities.

In Let Their People Come , Lant Pritchett discusses five ""irresistible forces"" of global labor migration, and the ""immovable ideas"" that form a political backlash against it.

Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. This title argues that developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations - much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one.