Pro-Poor Spending

• Bourguignon, Francois and Luiz A. Pereira da Silva, eds, "The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools." The World Bank, Washington DC.
• Fozzard, A., 2001, “The Basic Budgeting Problem, Approaches to Resource Allocation in the Public Sector and their Implications for Pro-Poor Budgeting,” Working Paper No. 147, Overseas Development Institute, London.
• Paternostro, Stefano, A. Rajaram and E. Tiongson.  2005. "How Does the Composition of Public Spending Matter?" Policy Research Working Paper 3555. The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
• Mosley, Paul, J. Hudson and A. Verschoor. 2004. "Aid, Poverty Reduction and the "New Conditionality," The Economic Journal, 114 (June), F217–F243. (224 Kb)

Country Studies

• Agénor, Pierre-Richard, N. Bayraktar and K. El Aynaoui, "Roads out of Poverty? Assessing the Links between Aid, Public Investment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction." December 2004. (493kb PDF)
• Fan, Shenggen and P. Hazell, 2001, “Returns to Public Investments in the Less-favored Areas of India and China,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 83(5).
• Fan, Shenggen, P.L.Huong, and T.Q. Long, 2004, “Government Spending and Poverty Reduction in Vietnam,” International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. (133kb PDF)
• Fan Shenggen, P. Hazel, S. Thorat, 1999, “Linkages between Government Spending, Growth, and Poverty in Rural India,” Research Report 110, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC.
• Fan, Shenggen, X. Zhang, and N. Rao, 2004, “Public Expenditure, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Uganda,” DSGD Discussion Paper 4, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.
• Lofgren, Hans and Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, "Economywide Simulations of Ethiopian MDG Strategies." Draft, July 22, 2005. (126kb PDF)
• Lofgren, Hans and Sherman Robinson, "Public Spending, Growth and Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis." Draft. May 21, 2004. (318kb PDF)

Pro-Poor Spending in Practice

• Poverty Tracking Mechanisms in HIPC Countries
• Pro-Poor Public Spending Reform — Lessons from Uganda’s Virtual Poverty Fund (139kb PDF)
• Update on the Assessments and Implementation of Action Plans to Strengthen Capacity of HIPCs to Track Poverty-Reducing Public Spending. April 12, 2005. (227kb PDF)

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