Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth : Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences
By T. Besley, Louise J. Cord. 2006
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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.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Beyond Agriculture Versus Non-Agriculture: Decomposing Sectoral Growth–Poverty Linkages in Five African Countries (2016, unknown): “One approach that is often used is to estimate PGEs directly from household surveys by assuming that changes in total reported consumption can proxy for changes in total GDP (see, for example, the studies in Besley and Cord 2007 and Grimm, Klasen, and McKay 2007). Two aspects of this approach are re”
- Urban poverty : a global view (2008, background): “The growth and poverty impact of this strategy has proven to be very successful (Besley and Cord, 2007).”