Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences

Edited by Timothy Besley and Louise J. Cord

Broad-based growth is critical to accelerating poverty reduction. But income inequality also affects the pace at which growth translates into gains for the poor. Despite the attention researchers have given to the relative roles of growth and inequality in reducing poverty, little is known about how the microunderpinnings of growth strategies affect poor households’ ability to participate in and profit from growth.

Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. It integrates growth analytics with the microanalysis of household data to determine how country policies and conditions interact to reduce poverty and to spread the benefits of growth across different income groups. Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth is a useful resource for policy makers, donor agencies, academics, think tanks, and government officials working to better understand how to reduce poverty through shared growth.

Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences (1.35mb PDF)
Publication Date: September 2006
Paperback: ISBN 0-8213-6515-0 ; SKU: 16515
6” X 9” 􀁹 260 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 0-8213-6670-X ; SKU: 16670
339 pages

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Table of Contents

1. Overview
   Louise J. Cord
2. How Indonesia Connected the Poor to Rapid Economic Growth
   C. Peter Timmer
3. The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India
   Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and Berta Esteve-Volart
4. Explaining Pro-Poor Growth in Bangladesh: Puzzles, Evidence, and Implications
   Binayak Sen, Mustafa K. Mujeri, and Quazi Shahabuddin
5. Pro-Poor Growth in Vietnam: Miracle or Model?
   Rainer Klump
6. Ghana: The Challenge of Translating Sustained Growth into Poverty Reduction
   Ernest Aryeetey and Andrew McKay
7. Uganda’s Experience with Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth, 1992 to 2003
   John A. Okidi, Sarah Ssewanyana, Lawrence Bategeka, and Fred Muhumuza
8. The Success of Pro-Poor Growth in Rural and Urban Tunisia
   Mohamed Hédi Lahouel
9. Human Capital, Inequality, and Pro-Poor Growth in Brazil
   Naércio Menezes-Filho and Lígia Vasconcellos

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