03344nam 2200601 a 450 991045214900332120200520144314.097866106219651-280-62196-60-8213-6516-9(CKB)1000000000467655(EBL)459338(OCoLC)654362636(SSID)ssj0000086230(PQKBManifestationID)11120738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086230(PQKBWorkID)10029571(PQKB)10247084(MiAaPQ)EBC459338(Au-PeEL)EBL459338(CaPaEBR)ebr10146796(CaONFJC)MIL62196(EXLCZ)99100000000046765520060615d2007 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDelivering on the promise of pro-poor growth[electronic resource] insights and lessons from country experiences /Timothy Besley and Louise J. Cord, editorsBasingstoke [England] ;New York Palgrave Macmillan ;Washington DC World Bankc20071 online resource (270 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8213-6670-X 0-8213-6515-0 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 relativelyEconomic developmentCase studiesPovertyGovernment policyCase studiesElectronic books.Economic developmentPovertyGovernment policy338.9Besley Timothy119796Cord Louise881601MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452149003321Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth1968791UNINA