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

Tim Besley

ISBN 10: 0821365150 / ISBN 13: 9780821365151

Editore: World Bank Publications Okt 2007, 2007

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Neuware - Policy makers who seek to reduce poverty should implement policies that enable their countries to achieve a higher rate of growth. Examining the relationship between growth and poverty reduction among eight countries in the 1990s and early 2000s, countries with rapid growth saw the most poverty reduction. In contrast, poverty levels rose in many developing countries where growth stagnated or was negative for this period. But growth is more effective in reducing poverty in some countries than in others. This volume provides important lessons about what has and has not worked in these countries to increase the participation of poor households in growth.

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• Titolo: Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth : Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences
• Editore: World Bank Publications Okt 2007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0821365150
• ISBN 13: 9780821365151
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 161 A x 17 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 161 millimetri di altezza per 17 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 435 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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