Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences

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Para além das experiências de sucesso na redução da pobreza na índia, Bangladesh, Vietnam e Indonésia, ocorreu-me partilhar a leitura deste livro, que acabou de sair agora em Janeiro, pela refefência ao " Desafio da conversão do Crescimento Sustentado em Efectiva Redução da Pobreza , no Gana". Vejam o artigo de Ernest Aryeetey e Andrew McKay.

E este pensamento surge-me hoje, particularmente, no momento da eleição do Presidente John Kofuor para a Presidência da União Africana, organização que cada vez faz mais sentido para os Africanos e para os parceiros de desenvolvimento.

Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences

The book 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.

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi 1. Overview 1 Louise J. Cord 2. How Indonesia Connected the Poor to Rapid Economic Growth 29 C. Peter Timmer 3. The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India 59 Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and Berta Esteve-Volart 4. Explaining Pro-Poor Growth in Bangladesh: Puzzles, Evidence, and Implications 79 Binayak Sen, Mustafa K. Mujeri, and Quazi Shahabuddin 5. Pro-Poor Growth in Vietnam: Miracle or Model? 119 Rainer Klump 6. Ghana: The Challenge of Translating Sustained Growth into Poverty Reduction 147 Ernest Aryeetey and Andrew McKay 7. Uganda’s Experience with Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth, 1992 to 2003 169 John A. Okidi, Sarah Ssewanyana, Lawrence Bategeka, and Fred Muhumuza 8. The Success of Pro-Poor Growth in Rural and Urban Tunisia 199 Mohamed Hédi Lahouel 9. Human Capital, Inequality, and Pro-Poor Growth in Brazil 219 Naércio Menezes-Filho and Lígia Vasconcellos Index 245