Inclusive growth

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This gateway guide is designed to point readers to the most useful, credible and up-to-date resources available on the internet in relation to inclusive and pro-poor growth in a development context. It was prepared by Andrew McDevitt in February 2009. Suggestions are welcome at: enquiries@gsdrc.org.

Contents:

• Inclusive growth guidance
• Academic resources
• Blogs
• Journals

Inclusive Growth guidance

• World Bank PovertyNet: Achieving Shared Growth
  This website hosted by the World Bank contains a large selection of materials related to shared growth, inclusive growth and pro-poor growth. It provides tools, methods and key readings to analyse linkages between growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, including an introduction to the Diagnostic Facility for Shared Growth and the Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth work programmes. The PovertyNet library also includes a large collection of publications on pro-poor growth and inequality.
• World Bank Poverty and Inequality Research: Pro-poor Growth
  This component of the World Bank’s poverty research programme explores pro-poor growth and inequality at the country and sub-national levels as well as income dynamics, risk and vulnerability, and social exclusion and poverty. It includes a small collection of working papers and links to related documents on pro-poor growth.
• Commission on Growth and Development
  The Commission on Growth and Development is a network of practitioners and policymakers, aiming to gain a better understanding of the policies and strategies that underlie rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The website is focused around the Growth Report, which looks at how developing countries can achieve fast sustained and equitable growth.  The website also includes a selection of background thematic papers on inclusive growth authored by commission members. 
• International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
  The IPC-IG, formerly the International Poverty Centre, is a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Brazil. It aims to facilitate South-South learning in development solutions by fostering policy dialogue, carrying out policy-oriented research, and conducting training and evaluation. The sub-sections on pro-poor growth policies and inclusive growth include collections of recent publications on the respective themes.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and  Development – Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC): Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET)
  POVNET aims to increase the impact of economic growth on poverty reduction. The website contains guidance for donors including case studies, guidelines, manuals and policy messages.
• United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER): Poverty, Inequality and Wellbeing
  UNU-WIDER’s cross-cutting research project on poverty, inequality and well-being covers a wide range of issues related to economic development, including growth, inequality, poverty reduction, social protection, and human development. Each sub-section includes a short project description as well as links to relevant publications and conference material.
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida): Economic Growth
  This website provides a wide range of regularly updated information and resources on economic growth, including toolkits and best practices. The site is divided into thematic sub-sections each of which includes an overview of the key issues and links to relevant documents. 
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Poverty Frontiers: Pro-Poor Growth
  This sub-section of USAID’s Poverty Frontiers knowledge sharing website includes a substantial selection of publications on pro-poor growth from USAID and other organisations.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB): Forum on Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction in the New Asia and Pacific
  The ADB’s forum on inclusive growth and poverty reduction includes conference papers, background materials and links to related resources on the ADB’s evolving thinking on pro-poor growth. It also provides a link to the ADB’s database of knowledge products on pro-poor growth.

Academic resources

• Center for Global Development (CGD): Economic Growth
  This section of the CGD’s website aims to explore strategies for ensuring that economic growth is ‘pro-poor’. It includes a selection of CGD’s own publications on the topic.
• The International Development Research Centre (IDRC): Globalization Growth and Poverty
  The IDRC’s research programme on globalization, growth and poverty (GGP) aims to enable developing countries to promote more inclusive and equitable growth. The programme website includes a selection of IDRC publications on the three interrelated themes of: drivers and patterns of inclusive growth, markets and other institutions, and social protection.
• Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet)
  PEGNet is a network of researchers with an interest in the poverty-inequality-growth nexus, maintained by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. It aims to facilitate cooperation among researchers, initiate joint activities and use research results as an input for policy advice concerning pro-poor growth strategies. The website includes a good selection of research papers from recent PEGNet conferences.
• Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG)
  IPPG is a research consortium led by the University of Manchester, which aims to highlight the importance of institutions for economic development and change. The website includes a selection of books, discussion papers and briefing papers, as well as further information on sub-thematic research projects.
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI): Growth and Equity Programme
  ODI’s growth and equity programme aims to close the analytical gap between poverty and economic growth. The website includes information on current and past projects, a substantial selection of publications from ODI and other institutions, and reports on events and workshops organised by the growth and equity programme.  

Blogs

• The Growth Blog
  This blog from the Commission on Growth and Development aims to stimulate debate on policies and issues related to inclusive growth.
• Poverty and Growth Blog
  This blog, maintained by the Poverty and Growth Programme (PGP) of the World Bank Institute is regularly updated with news, resources, tools, ideas and commentary on poverty related issues.
• Dani Rodick’s Weblog
  This blog from Dani Rodick, professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, discusses issues relating to economic growth and globalisation.

Journals

• Journal of African Economies
          -Special issue on Poverty Trade and Growth in Africa
           (Vol 15:4, December 2006)    
• World Development
          -Special Issue: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Conceptual
           Issues, Empirical Illustrations, and Policy Implications
           (Volume 36:6, June 2008)

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