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In confirmation of the distinctions here laid down it will be thought sufficient to observe that, when the Company's packet, the Greyhound, lay at what was called Lant's Bay in Mintaon, an officer came to our settlement of Natal (of which Mr. John Marsden at that time was chief) in a Batu oil-boat; and that a large trade for oil is carried on from Padang and other places with the island of Batu, whilst that of

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

Lant Pritchett has a very nice article about the disincentives that donors face for honest evaluation.

Dennis Whittle: Transparency: How to Get from Consensus to Impact? Dennis Whittle 2010

Lant Pritchett, the former World Bank economist, shares Mr. Guest's skepticism about the importance of the much ballyhooed microloans that help the world's poorest people to buy livestock or open a small business.

Talent On the Move Katherine Mangu-Ward 2011

Central to his case is a 2005 study by Lant Pritchett, a former economist at the World Bank, titled "Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility."

Talent On the Move Katherine Mangu-Ward 2011

These include Lant Pritchett's proposals for bilateral guest-worker agreements, the ideas of Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny for raising permanent economic visa allocations, and the proposal by Jesús Fernández-Huertas and Hillel Rapoport for tradable immigration quotas.

A world without borders makes economic sense | Michael A Clemens 2011

"It's one of the best things that's happened down here in the last several years," said Doug Lant of Terlingua, Texas, a small community just outside the national park.

Crossing Into U.S. Will Ease in One Spot Ana Campoy 2011

In Let Their People Come, a new book published by the Center for Global Development, Lant Pritchett reports that if rich countries permitted extra immigration equivalent to 3 percent of their labor force, the citizens of poor countries would gain about $300 billion a year.

For Open Borders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Lant Pritchett has a very nice article about the disincentives that donors face for honest evaluation.

Dennis Whittle: Transparency: How to Get from Consensus to Impact? Dennis Whittle 2010

I really thought he was gonna go all Lant Pritchett on us by drawing the obvious implication of his observations and calling for increased immigration, but no, he just wants to tell people they have no business opposing tax increases.

A case of misplaced indignation 2009

Lant Pritchett has a very nice article about the disincentives that donors face for honest evaluation.

Dennis Whittle: Transparency: How to Get from Consensus to Impact? Dennis Whittle 2010