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The international community's commitment to halve global poverty by 2015 has been enshrined in the first Millennium Development Goal. How global poverty is measured is a critical element in assessing progress towards this goal, and different researchers have presented widely-varying estimates. The chapters in this volume address a range of problems in the measurement and estimation of global poverty, from a variety of viewpoints. Topics covered include the controversies surrounding the definition of a global poverty line; the use of purchasing power parity exchange rates to map the poverty line across countries; and the quality, and appropriate use, of data from national accounts and household surveys. Both official and independent estimates of global poverty have proved to be controversial, and this volume presents and analyses the lively debate that has ensued.
Contents
1. Introduction ; PART I: MEASURING GLOBAL POVERTY ; 2. The Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Why Measurement Matters ; 3. How Not to Count the Poor ; 3a A Reply to Reddy and Pogge ; 3b How Many Poor People Should There Be? ; 4. Raising the Standard: The War on Global Poverty ; 5. Irrelevance of the $1-a-Day Poverty Line ; 6. Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potential and Limitations ; 7. Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World) ; 8. Poverty or Income Distribution: Which Do We Want to Measure? ; 9. A Note on the (Mis)Use of National Accounts for Estimation of Household Final Consumption Expenditures for Poverty Measures ; 10. Unequal Development in the 1990s: Growing Gaps in Human Capabilities ; PART II: REGIONAL AND COUNTRY STUDIES ; 11. Improving Measurement of Latin American Inequality and Poverty with an Eye to Equitable Growth Policy ; 12. The Changing Nature of Urban Poverty in China ; 13. China is Poorer than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight against Poverty ; 14. Poverty Decline in India in the 1990s : A Reality and Not an Artifact ; 15. Living Standards in Africa
