Lant Pritchett
ExpertiseEmpirical development economics, economic reform, international migration, poverty, social policy and development. InitiativesMigration and Development, Population and Development Research AgendaResearch TopicsEconomic Growth, Education, Governance/Democracy, Inequality, Migration and PopulationEducationB.S., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology BackgroundLant Pritchett, is currently Lead Socio-Economist with the World Bank and is based in New Delhi, India. Previously from 2000 to 2004 he was Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where from 2003-04 was Faculty Co-Chair of the MPA/ID program. From 1998-2000 he lived in Indonesia, working as a Principal Socio-Economist with the World Bank and prior to that spent a decade in the World Bank’s research group in various positions. He has been a team member on a number of prominent World Bank publications including: Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reforms (2005), Making Services Work for Poor People (World Development Report 2004), Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't and Why (with David Dollar, 1998); Infrastructure for Development (World Development Report 1994). He has also published over fifty journal articles and papers on a wide range of topics, including labor mobility, education, economic growth, poverty and vulnerability, social capital, health, safety net programs, participatory project approaches, population issues, and international trade. Originally from Idaho, Pritchett now lives in India with his wife and three children. |
