Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth
In this working paper by the
Center for Global Development, Lant Pritchett shows the advantages of labour mobility in reducing poverty. He suggests that increasing the freedom of people who want to work - and people who want those people to work in mutually beneficially transactions across national borders - is better than targeting people in poverty without allowing them to move in search of opportunity. The gains from accelerating growth are many-fold larger than the gains from individual interventions; and the poverty reduction gains from extended periods of rapid growth are larger than those from targeted interventions, and thus hold greater promise in reducing global poverty.
https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/alleviating-global-poverty-labor-mobility-direct-assistance-and-economic-growth.pdf
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