There are three ways to reduce global poverty: let people change place, have places poor people live in get more productive, and anti-poverty programs. Place has, at the margin, far and away the largest potential. If productivity goes up poverty goes down, but creating sustained productivity growth has proven difficult in many places. Anti-poverty programs, which get far and away the most attention and publicity and even research from economists and which, for some, are the essence of ‘doing development’ are actually empirically near irrelevant (even when cost-effective).
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Memorial Union, 230 Pima
Thank you for your interest in Global Poverty: Place, Productivity, or Program?.
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Center for the Study of Economic Liberty
Mason Hunt, MPA
Events Coordinator
mason.hunt@asu.edu