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“Pro-poor growth ” is the new mantra of the development community. Most donor agencies have active research programs underway to understand the pro-poor process, and the World Bank, with British, French and German bilateral support, is already studying how to operationalize the concept (USAID, 2004; World Bank, 2004). Definitions vary, but they all revolve around connecting the poor to rapid economic growth so there is a concomitant rapid reduction in poverty. What is new is the focus on economic growth as the primary vehicle for sustainable reductions in poverty, distributional initiatives and processes playi commissioned by the Indonesia Project at A interest in pro-poor growth in regional pers lessons for Indonesia.1 The main challenge growth process with much more limited und of eight Asian countries provides grist for th wit