Delivering on the Promise of Pro-poor Growth : Insights and Lessons From Country Experiences

Broad-based growth is critical for accelerating proverty reduction. But income inequality also affects thee pace at which growth translates into gains for the poor. Despite the attention researchers have give to the relative roles of growth and inqequality in rreducing 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 accerlerate 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 houosehold 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. 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 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 seeking a practical framework to improve country-level diagnostics of growth-poverty linkages. Overview / Louise J. Cord -- How Indonesia Connected The Poor To Rapid Economic Growth / C. Peter Timmer -- The Policy Origins Of Poverty And Growth In India / Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, And Berta Esteve-volart -- Explaining Pro-poor Growth In Bangladesh: Puzzles, Evidence, And Implications / Binayak Sen, Mustafa K. Mujeri, And Quazi Shahabuddin -- Pro-poor Growth In Vietnam: Miracle Or Model? / Rainer Klump -- Ghana: The Challenge Of Translating Sustained Growth Into Poverty Reduction / Ernest Aryeetey And Andrew Mckay -- Uganda's Experience With Operationalizing Pro-poor Growth, 1992 To 2003 / John A. Okidi ... [et Al.] -- The Success Of Pro-poor Growth In Rural And Urban Tunisia / Mohamed Hédi Lahouel -- Human Capital, Inequality, And Pro-poor Growth In Brazil / Naércio Menezes-filho And Lígia Vasconcellos. Timothy Besley And Louise J. Cord, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Overview / Louise J. Cord How Indonesia connected the poor to rapid economic growth / C. Peter Timmer The policy origins of poverty and growth in India / Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and Berta Esteve-Volart Explaining pro-poor growth in Bangladesh: puzzles, evidence, and implications / Binayak Sen, Mustafa K. Muferi, and Quazi Shahabuddin Pro-poor growth in Vietnam: miracle or model? / Rainer Klump Ghana: the challenge of translating sustained growth into poverty reduction / Ernest Aryeetey and Andrew McKay Uganda's experience with operationalizing pro-poor growth, 1922 to 2003 / John A. Okidi ... [et al.] The success of pro-poor growth in rural and urban Tunisia / Mohamed Hédi Lahouel Human capital, inequality, and pro-poor growth in Brazil / Naércio Menezes-Filho and Lígia Vasconcellos. 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 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 Economic growth is the most important determinant of poverty reduction. But countries with similar rates of growth can experience different poverty reduction rates