Lant Pritchett

Professor of the Practice of International Development - Harvard Kennedy School

Economist

PhD in economics, MIT (1988)

Research areas
Poverty and vulnerability, social capital, health, safety net programs, economic growth, education, participatory project approaches, and trade.

Selected publications
Pritchett, L., "Does Learning to Add up Add Up" forthcoming in Handbook of Education Economics, North Holland, 2005.
Pritchett, L., "World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for the Poor. (with WDR2004 team). Oxford University Press for World Bank.
Pritchett, L., "Ought Ain't Is: An Economists Midnight Thoughts on Education." forthcoming in Brussels Economic Review.
Pritchett, L., "Evolution of Poverty during the Crisis in Indonesia" (with Sudarno Sumarto and Asep Suryahadi). Asian Economic Journal. (2003).

Publication date 18-Feb-2014

Publications

Perspective Paper

Third Copenhagen Consensus: Education Perspective, Pritchett

Perspective Paper

Second Copenhagen Consensus: Education Perspective, Pritchett

Assessment Paper

Copenhagen Consensus: Education Assessment, Pritchett

Copenhagen Consensus

The Copenhagen Consensus was our first project. The basic idea was to improve prioritization of the numerous problems the world faces, by gathering some of the world's greatest economists to a meeting where some of ...

Copenhagen Consensus III

In 2004 and 2008, the Copenhagen Consensus Center held two major projects that helped to shape overseas development spending and philanthropic decisions for years to come. The third Copenhagen Consensus was the late...

Copenhagen Consensus II

The second Copenhagen Consensus took place 25-30 May in Copenhagen. Once again, our Expert Panel tackled the question, Imagine you had $75 billion to donate to worthwhile causes. What would you do, and where should ...