Debates on the measurement of global poverty / edited by Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

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TextSeries: The Initiative for Policy Dialogue seriesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xvii, 446 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780199558049 (pbk.)
0199558043 (pbk.)

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Poverty

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339.46 DEB 23 002535

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Table of contents

Contents:

Measuring global poverty. The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality why measurement matters / Martin Ravallion How not to count the poor / Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas Pogge A reply to Reddy and Pogge / Martin Ravallion How many poor people should there be a rejoinder to Ravallion / Thomas Pogge Raising the standard the war on global poverty / Surjit S. Bhalla Irrelevance of the $1-a-day poverty line / T.N. Srinivasan Use of country purchasing power parities for international comparisons of poverty levels potential and limitations / Bettina Aten and Alan Heston Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world) / Angus Deaton Poverty or income distribution which do we want to measure? / Robert Johnson A note on the (mis)use of national accounts for estimation of household final consumption expenditures for poverty measures / Ivo Havinga, Gisèle Kamanou, Vu Quang Viet Unequal development in the 1990's growing gaps in human capabilities / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David Stewart Regional and country studies. Improving measurement of Latin American inequality and poverty with an eye to equitable growth policy / Albert Berry The changing nature of urban poverty in China / Carl Riskin and Qin Gao China is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty / Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion Poverty decline in India in the 1990's a reality and not an artifact / K. Sundaram and Suresh D. Tendulkar Living standards in Africa / David E. Sahn and Stephen D. Younger.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Measuring global poverty. The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality why measurement matters / Martin Ravallion How not to count the poor / Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas Pogge A reply to Reddy and Pogge / Martin Ravallion How many poor people should there be a rejoinder to Ravallion / Thomas Pogge Raising the standard the war on global poverty / Surjit S. Bhalla Irrelevance of the $1-a-day poverty line / T.N. Srinivasan Use of country purchasing power parities for international comparisons of poverty levels potential and limitations / Bettina Aten and Alan Heston Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world) / Angus Deaton Poverty or income distribution which do we want to measure? / Robert Johnson A note on the (mis)use of national accounts for estimation of household final consumption expenditures for poverty measures / Ivo Havinga, Gisèle Kamanou, Vu Quang Viet Unequal development in the 1990's growing gaps in human capabilities / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David Stewart
Regional and country studies. Improving measurement of Latin American inequality and poverty with an eye to equitable growth policy / Albert Berry The changing nature of urban poverty in China / Carl Riskin and Qin Gao China is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty / Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion Poverty decline in India in the 1990's a reality and not an artifact / K. Sundaram and Suresh D. Tendulkar Living standards in Africa / David E. Sahn and Stephen D. Younger.

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