Focusing on pro-poor growth and income poverty, Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors identifies binding constraints and offers policies and strategies to address them.

This policy statement looks at how policies for pro-poor growth and other policy areas need to interact to make sustainable inroads into poverty reduction. There are three key messages: rapid and sustained poverty reduction require a pace and pattern of growth that enhances the ability of poor women and men to contribute to and benefit from growth; policies to tackle the multiple dimensions of poverty, including issues of gender and environment are mutually reinforcing and should go hand-in hand; empowering the poor is essential for bringing about the policies and investments needed for pro-poor growth.

This book on poverty and health, jointly published by the OECD and WHO, sets out the essential components of a broad-scope “pro-poor” health approach for action within the health system and beyond it. It is for development practitioners in the area of health issues.

Developing countries want to join in the globalisation process. However, the increasing complexity of global markets, the new challenges of the multilateral trading system and the competing demands of regional, bilateral and multilateral trade agreemen

Focusing on pro-poor growth and income poverty, Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors identifies binding constraints and offers policies and strategies to address them.

Natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth in low-income countries. This publication demonstrates that natural resources can contribute to growth, employment, exports and fiscal revenues and highlights the importance of policies encouraging the sustainable management of these resources.