Growth and Social Protection - Useful Links

Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth
Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth Work Programme, World Bank. Outputs include a study entitled 'Pro-Poor Growth in the 1990s: Lessons and Insights from 14 Countries', which states that 'policymakers who seek to reduce poverty should implement policies that enable their countries to achieve a higher rate of growth. But growth is more effective in reducing poverty in some countries than in others, depending on the capacity of poor people to participate in and benefit from growth.'

African Economic Research Consortium
AERC, established in 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training in economics. Its mandate is to enhance the capacity of locally based researchers to conduct policy-relevant economic inquiry; promoting retention of such capacity; and encouraging its application in the policy context.

New Directions for Agriculture in Reducing Poverty
This site contains outputs from a UK Department for International Development broad-based consultation on the role of agriculture in growth and poverty reduction. The outputs from the consultation are being used to guide the new policy approach that DFID will employ to unlock the potential of agriculture.

African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AfJARE). This open-access journal aims to publish original research about how African agriculture interacts with local and global economic systems and policy regimes in its impacts upon people.

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