Policy makers who seek to reduce poverty should implement policies that enable their countries to achieve a higher rate of growth. This volume provides important lessons about what has and has not worked in these countries to increase the participation of poor households in growth.

Overview; L.Cord How Indonesia Connected the Poor to Rapid Economic Growth; C.P.Timmer The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India; T.Besley, R.Burgess & B.Esteve-Volart Explaining Pro-Poor Growth in Bangladesh: Puzzles, Evidence, and Implications; B.Sen, M.K.Mujeri & Q.Shahabuddin Pro-poor Growth in Vietnam: Miracle or Model? R.Klump Ghana: The Challenge of Translating Sustained Growth in Poverty Reduction; E.Aryeetey & A.McKay Uganda's Experience with 'Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth', 1992 to 2003; J.A.Okidi, S.Ssewanyana, L.Bategeka & F.Muhumuza The Success of Pro-Poor Growth in Rural and Urban Tunisia; M.H.Lahouel Human Capital, Inequality and Pro-Poor Growth in Brazil; N.Menezes-Filho & L.Vasconcellos

ERNEST ARYEETEY Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Ghana LAWRENCE BATEGEKA Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda ROBIN BURGESS Reader in Economics and Co-Director, Programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science, UK BERTA ESTEVE-VOLART PhD Student, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science, UK RAINER KLUMP Chair of Economic Development and Integration, University of Frankfurt, Germany MOHAMED HAeDI LAHOUEL Professor of Economics, Faculte de Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia ANDY MCKAY Professor of Economics and International Development, University of Bath, UK NAAeRCIO MENEZES-FILHO University of Sao Paulo, Brazil FRED MUHUMUZA Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda MUSTAFA K. MUJERI Visiting Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Bangladesh JOHN A. OKIDI Executive Director, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda BINAYAK SEN Senior Economist, South Asia Sector, PREM, World Bank, USA QUAZI SHAHABUDDIN Director General, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Bangladesh SARAH SSEWANYANA Senior Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Center, Uganda C. PETER TIMMER Senior Research Fellow, Center for Global Development, USA LAiGIA VASCONCELLOS University of Sao Paulo, Brazil