Lant Pritchett is a development economist from Idaho. He graduated from BYU in 1983 and from MIT with a PhD in Economics in 1988. He worked with the World Bank from 1988 to 2007, living in Indonesia ...

The development economist Lant Pritchett has suggested following the same logic to draw a higher international poverty line. I followed this suggestion, collecting nationally set poverty lines ...

The index became a gold standard for policymakers and analysts all over the world. Higher spots were fiercely protected by ...

Lant Pritchett, economist at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, takes a more institutional approach towards development. He is deeply sceptical of marginal fixes. In short ...

Should we use only whatever evidence we have from our specific location? In an effort to ensure that a program or policy makes sense locally, researchers such as Lant Pritchett and Justin Sandefur ...

Paul Demeny, of The Population Council, is exceptionally clear on this, and the World Bank economist Lant Pritchett asserts that 85-95 percent of actual fertility rates are explained by parents ...

Before joining Fox, Elizabeth worked as a digital content producer at WVTM 13 in Birmingham, Alabama for three years. During her time in local news, she contributed to online coverage of major ...

Is there a trade-off between the two or do they go hand in hand? IN his influential 1975 book Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, Arthur Okun argued that pursuing equality can reduce efficiency ...

Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets Modern growth theory ...

Every week, Braylon Pritchett was asked the same question. Most of the time, the Ridgeland High School senior linebacker would appease his classmates with a smile and a positive answer. The ...

When Seahawks cornerback Riq Woolen left Sunday's game to be checked out by athletic trainers, rookie fifth-round pick Nehemiah Pritchett checked in for him and played. Woolen made his way back to ...