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

UK, Palgrave Macmillan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821365150 ISBN 13: 9780821365151

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

This volume provides important lessons about what has and has not worked to increase the participation of poor households in growth.

About the Author:

ERNEST ARYEETEY Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Ghana LAWRENCE BATEGEKA Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda ROBIN BURGESS Reader in Economics and Co-Director, Programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science, UK BERTA ESTEVE-VOLART PhD Student, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science, UK RAINER KLUMP Chair of Economic Development and Integration, University of Frankfurt, Germany MOHAMED HÉDI LAHOUEL Professor of Economics, Faculté de Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia ANDY MCKAY Professor of Economics and International Development, University of Bath, UK NAÉRCIO MENEZES-FILHO University of São Paulo, Brazil FRED MUHUMUZA Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda MUSTAFA K. MUJERI Visiting Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Bangladesh JOHN A. OKIDI Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda BINAYAK SEN Senior Economist, South Asia Sector, PREM, World Bank, USA QUAZI SHAHABUDDIN Director General, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Bangladesh SARAH SSEWANYANA Senior Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda C. PETER TIMMER Senior Research Fellow, Center for Global Development, USA LÍGIA VASCONCELLOS University of São Paulo, Brazil

About this edition

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0821365150
• ISBN 13: 9780821365151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Besley Tim, Cord Louise