Debates on the measurement of global poverty /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | The Initiative for Policy Dialogue series
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Table of 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.