Friday, December 10, 2010

Evidence for a development idea

Lant Pritchett and Michael Clemens have been arguing for some time that labour mobility will alleviate poverty; see in particular The Biggest Idea in Development that No One Really Tried (video) . Chris Blattman links to some recent evidence of this in the post:
What’s the most effective development intervention we know? See in particular this comparison.

I read parts of Lant Pritcett book a couple of years ago and still browsing through the summary of the study What are the development impacts of “best practice” seasonal migration schemes? and the working paper here.
P.S. More links and discussion in Gulzar Natarajan's posts Labour mobility as an anti-poverty intervention and The case for temporary cross-country migration

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