This study aims to determine the effect of eonomic growth on poverty reduction in the province of Jambi in 2009-2013. The method used in this research is the method of quantitative approach. Analysis of the data used is the formula of income and simple regression statistical analysis using independent variables which include economic growth to the dependent variable of poverty. The result of the study indicate that economic growth has no significant effect on poverty. These factor the volume of economic growth does not have the most dominant influence on poverty because it has the greatest value compared with the value of growth. The results of analysis which states that the development and eonomic growth in Jambi province the highets percentage of economic growth from 2009-2013 in 2011 was 8.54 %, while the lowest percentage in 2009 was 5.57 %. Based on the development of poverty in Jambi province the highest percentage of poverty rate in 2009-2013 is in the year which is 2013 31.78 % and the lowest percentage of the year 2011 is 26.04 %. The impact of eonomic growth on poverty in Jambi province , where the variable of eonomic growth is not influential and insignificant to the variable of poverty or the value of its unity againt poverty is negative. This shows that eonomic growth has no effect on poverty in Jambi Province.