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Labour-saving innovation in rich countries is aimed at the only asset most of the world’s poor have to sell.

Drawn from what Lant Pritchett said

Subjectshiringinnovation
What these subjects mean

hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

What Lant Pritchett actually said

  1. Lant Pritchett Development economist
    Therefore, we have the perverse situation that the richest people are hiring some of the most talented and technologically sophisticated people on the planet to engage in innovation aimed at driving down the demand for labor—the major and often only asset of the world’s poor.

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    2 Mar 2023

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