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

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Pub. Date: 2006-10-11
Publisher(s): World Bank Publications
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Summary

Broad-based growth is critical for 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 inqequality 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. This title is a useful resource for policy makers, donor agencies, academics, think tanks, and government officials seeking a practical framework to improve country level diagnostics of growth-poverty linkages.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
1. Overview 1(28)
Louise J. Cord
2. How Indonesia Connected the Poor to Rapid Economic Growth 29(30)
C. Peter Timmer
3. The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India 59(20)
Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and Berta Esteve-Volart
4. Explaining Pro-Poor Growth in Bangladesh: Puzzles, Evidence, and Implications 79(40)
Binayak Sen, Mustafa K. Mujeri, and Quazi Shahabuddin
5. Pro-Poor Growth in Vietnam: Miracle or Model? 119(28)
Rainer Klump
6. Ghana: The Challenge of Translating Sustained Growth into Poverty Reduction 147(22)
Ernest Aryeetey and Andrew McKay
7. Uganda's Experience with Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth, 1992 to 2003 169(30)
John A. Okidi, Sarah Ssewanyana, Lawrence Bategeka, and Fred Muhumuza
8. The Success of Pro-Poor Growth in Rural and Urban Tunisia 199(20)
Mohamed Hedi Lahouel
9. Human Capital, Inequality, and Pro-Poor Growth in Brazil 219(26)
NaƩrcio Menezes-Filho and Ligia Vasconcellos
Index 245

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