Lant Pritchett: 4 books
The Rebirth of Education
Schooling Ain't Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
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 children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.
The problem is that schooling is not the...
Let Their People Come
Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
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, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and...
Building State Capability
Evidence, Analysis, Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms...
by Narayan Deepa; Pritchett Lant; Kapoor Soumya
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall five thousand times, I will stand up some other five times." William, a 37 years old from El Gorrion, Columbia, recounts his life story.Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. Moving...