Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth
Subtitle: insights and lessons from country experiences
By: Timothy Besley and Louise J. Cord, editors.
Contributors: Besley, Timothy.; Cord, Louise.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; World Bank; World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York; Washington DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780821365151; 9780821366707
Subjects: Economic development -- Case studies; Poverty -- Government policy -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview / Louise J. Cord; title: How Indonesia connected the poor to rapid economic growth / C. Peter Timmer; title: The policy origins of poverty and growth in India / Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and Berta Esteve-Volart; title: Explaining pro-poor growth in Bangladesh: puzzles, evidence, and implications / Binayak Sen, Mustafa K. Muferi, and Quazi Shahabuddin; title: Pro-poor growth in Vietnam: miracle or model? / Rainer Klump; title: Ghana: the challenge of translating sustained growth into poverty reduction / Ernest Aryeetey and Andrew McKay; title: Uganda's experience with operationalizing pro-poor growth, 1922 to 2003 / John A. Okidi ... [et al.]; title: The success of pro-poor growth in rural and urban Tunisia / Mohamed Hédi Lahouel; title: Human capital, inequality, and pro-poor growth in Brazil / Naércio Menezes-Filho and Lígia Vasconcellos.