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Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth : Insights and Lessons from Country ExperiencesDelivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor
 Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate
 poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries
 that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor
 growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia,
 Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. It integrates growth analytics
 with the microanalysis of household data to determine how
 country policies and conditions interact to reduce poverty
 and to spread the benefits of growth across different income
 groups. This title is a useful resource for policy makers,
 donor agencies, academics, think tanks, and government
 officials seeking a practical framework to improve country
 level diagnostics of growth-poverty linkages.
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The Poverty Focus of Country ProgramsThe World Bank Group in 2013 made the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030 a central institutional focus and purpose. This evaluation examines how, and how well, the Bank Group has focused its support on poverty reduction over the past decade, and what lessons to draw from this moving forward. The lessons aim to strengthen the Bank’s country diagnostics, improve the design of country strategies, and build greater learning opportunities from program experience. Using country case studies, surveys, focus group meetings, systematic reviews of Bank products, and other instruments, the evaluation examines the consistency of poverty focus in each of four links in a causal chain: data, diagnostics, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation through lending and nonlending instruments. It reviews the adequacy of the information base and usefulness of the analytical underpinnings that support country strategy formulation and implementation. It also evaluates the consistency of the poverty focus throughout the evaluation chain and the strength and weakness of feedback loops.
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Repbulic of Chad Poverty Notes : Dynamics of Poverty and Inequality following the Rise of the Oil SectorChad's chronically unstable
 security situation has long undermined broad-based economic
 growth and sustainable poverty reduction. Since independence
 in 1960 Chad has suffered from sporadic political violence
 and ongoing tensions between different factions. The
 country's fragile security has been further compromised
 by interference from neighboring states and spillover
 effects from regional conflicts. However, after rebel
 attacks in 2008 and 2009, and following the recent
 conclusion of a peace agreement between Chad and Sudan, the
 security situation in the country has remained relatively
 calm, presenting a valuable window of opportunity for
 development efforts to take root. The objective of this
 Poverty Note is to examine changes in poverty and inequality
 in Chad since the emergence of the oil sector. It will focus
 on the evolution of poverty indicators from the 2003 pre-oil
 baseline captured in the Chadian Household Consumption and
 Informal Sector Survey, or ECOSIT2 to the more recent
 findings of the 2011 ECOSIT3 and compare current monetary
 and nonmonetary poverty conditions in Chad with those of
 comparable countries. It will go on to assess the impact of
 oil production on the non-oil sectors of the Chadian
 economy. Finally, it will evaluate the extent to which
 public expenditures in the social sectors benefit the poor
 by analyzing the progressivity of social spending.