Subject(s): Economic development -- Manpower policy -- Poverty -- Employment -- Analytic framework and cross country analysis : Exploring employment Nexus- analytics of pro-poor growth, nexus of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction- empirical analysis, employment polices for poverty reduction -- Country studies : Bangladesh - linkage among economic growth, employment and poverty, Boliva- employment poverty linkages and polices, Ethiopia- growth, employment, poverty and polices, India- Employment linkages and policy options -- Indonesia- poverty, employment and wages, Uganda- economic growth, employment, poverty and prop-poor polices, Vietnam- employment poverty linkages and polices for pro-poor growth , implications for public policy