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Is Migration Good for Development?How Could You Even Ask?
Lant PritchettHarvard Kennedy SchoolPresentation atColumbia UniversityFeb. 13, 2009
Is Migration Good for Development?
•Ideas and their evolution: Marx and Foucault•Spatial Based versus People Based thinking—why does dirt matter in theories of justice?•The movement of people leads to developmentgains
orders of magnitude
larger than anythingelse on the agenda•For
some
places mobility may be the
only
development agenda•Ideas and their evolution: Crazy, Crazy, Crazy,Obvious
The world that was lost in 1914
He could secure forthwith, if he wished it, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate
without passport or other formality
, could dispatch hisservant to the neighboring office of a bank for suchsupply of the precious metals as might seem convenient,and could then proceed abroad to foreign quarters,without knowledge of their religion, language, or customs, bearing coined wealth upon his person, and would consider himself greatly aggrieved and muchsurprised at the least interference.
JM Keynes