Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth : insights and lessons from country experiences / Timothy Besley and Louise J. Cord, editors.

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TextSeries: World Bank e-LibraryPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Washington DC : Palgrave Macmillan ; World Bank, [2007]Copyright date: copyright 2007Description: xi, 253 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0821365150
082136670X (hbk.)
9780821365151

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Additional physical formats: Print Version:DDC classification:

338.9 22

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HD75 .D439 2007

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Contents:

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 ... [and others] -- The success of pro-poor growth in rural and urban Tunisia / Mohamed Hedi Lahouel -- Human capital, inequality, and pro-poor growth in Brazil / Naercio Menezes-Filho and Ligia Vasconcellos.

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