Pro-poor health policies in poverty reduction strategies

Are Pro-Growth Policies Pro-Poor?

The basis, and characterization, of pro-poor growth remain a source of debate in the current development literature. The paper sheds light on this debate with an example drawn from an analysis of household panel data from Bangladesh. The objective is to determine if observed rural income growth and the policies supporting this growth have been pro-poor — that is, whether policies and growth hav...

Determinants of Rural Poverty Reduction and Pro-poor Economic Growth in China

China has made remarkable progress in its war against poverty since the launching of economic reform in the late 1970s. This paper examines some of the major driving forces of poverty reduction in China. Based on time series and cross-sectional provincial data, the determinants of rural poverty incidence are estimated. The results show that economic growth is an essential and necessary conditio...

Strategies for Pro-Poor Growth: Pro-Poor, Pro-Growth or Both

Pro-Poor Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Rural Vietnam

Neoliberalism and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

It is conventional wisdom both that during the past two decades, Africa was ‘marginalised’ by globalisation and that the Bretton Woods Institutions’ strategies for stabilisation and recovery often produced neither. As recent solutions, three African presidents have proposed a ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (Nepad, launched in 2001), and the World Bank and IMF are promoting ‘Poverty ...