Lant Pritchett
Research TopicsEconomic Growth, Education, Governance/Democracy, Inequality, Migration and DevelopmentEducationB.S., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology BackgroundLant Pritchett is professor of the Practice of International Development and faculty chair of the Masters in Public Policy in International Development program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to returning the Kennedy School, he was lead socio-economist in the social development group of the South Asia region of the World Bank, resident in Delhi, 2004–2007. 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. |
