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Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth : insights and lessons from country experiences / edited by Timothy Besley and Louise J. Cord. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Washington DC : Palgrave Macmillan ; World Bank, c2007. - xi, 253 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

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.



ISBN: 0821365150

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economic development--Case studies.
Poverty--Government policy--Case studies.

LC Class. No.: HD75 / .D45 2007