Pengarang: Lant Pritchett

Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India”s rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty …

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. Increasing wage gaps, dif …

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and sele …

‘No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall 5, 000 times, I will stand up another 5, 000 times.’ — William, a 37-year-old from El Gorri A n, Colombia Why and how do some people move out of pover …

Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.The urgency of reducing poverty …

Discussions of the use and limits of randomized control trials, considering the power of theory, external validity, gaps in knowledge, and what issues matter.The practice of development economics has …

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and sele …