Format:
1 online resource (270 pages)
ISBN:
9780821365168
Content:
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.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Overview -- 2. How Indonesia Connected the Poor to Rapid Economic Growth -- 3. The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India -- 4. Explaining Pro-Poor Growth in Bangladesh: Puzzles, Evidence, and Implications -- 5. Pro-Poor Growth in Vietnam: Miracle or Model? -- 6. Ghana: The Challenge of Translating Sustained Growth into Poverty Reduction -- 7. Uganda's Experience with Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth, 1992 to 2003 -- 8. The Success of Pro-Poor Growth in Rural and Urban Tunisia -- 9. Human Capital, Inequality, and Pro-Poor Growth in Brazil -- Index -- TABLES -- 1.1 Initial Conditions in the Eight Countries Studied -- 1.2 Basic Poverty, Growth, and Inequality Trends in the Eight Countries Studied -- 2.1 Income Distribution and the Share of the Poor in National Income, 1964/65-2002 -- 2.2 Percentage of Employment by Major Sector, Urban and Rural Areas, Formal and Informal Sectors, Indonesia, 1986-2004 -- 2.3 Factors Affecting Changes in the Headcount Index of Poverty -- 2.4 Roads and Trucks in Indonesia, 1939-98 -- 3.1 Poverty and Growth across Indian States -- 3.2 Classification of States according to Total Poverty Elasticity and Growth Components -- 3.3 Rankings of Growth Elasticities of Poverty, Growth Rates, and Policies of Indian States, 1958-2000 -- 4.1 Trends in Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Measures of Poverty: Consumption Expenditure Data -- 4.2 Social Development in Bangladesh: Predicted versus Actual Values -- 4.3 Average Annual Economic Growth in Bangladesh at Constant 1995/96 Prices -- 4.4 Trends in Inequality: Consumption Data (Tk/month/person) -- 4.5 Ordinary Growth and Pro-Poor Growth Rates in Bangladesh: 1990s versus 1980s -- 4.6 Ordinary Growth and Pro-Poor Growth Rates in Bangladesh: Rural, Urban, and National, 1991/92-2000.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821365151
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821365151
Additional Edition:
Print version Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth : Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences
Language:
English
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