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.

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

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.

This book examines the regulatory rules on public procurement in selected African countries and provides a comparative analysis of key regulatory issues.

Empowerment of those living in poverty is both a critical driver and an important measure of poverty reduction. This report aims to build donor understanding of empowerment and how best to support it.

This Guidance volume explains the benefits of using SEA in development co-operation and sets out key steps for its application based on recent experiences.