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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

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  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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