Debates on the measurement of global poverty

This volume brings together the most recent debates in the measurement of global poverty - a topic of the greatest importance if we are to develop effective strategies for poverty reduction and have any real sense of whether progressis being made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. INDICE: 1: Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz: Introduction; Part I: Measuring Global Poverty; 2: Martin Ravallion: The Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Why Measurement Matters; 3: Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas Pogge: How Not to Count the Poor; 3a: Martin Ravallion: A Reply to Reddy and Pogge; 3b: Thomas Pogge: How Many Poor People Should There Be?; 4: Surjit Bhalla: Raising the Standard: The War on Global Poverty; 5: T. N. Srinivasan: Irrelevance of the $1-a-Day Poverty Line; 6: Bettina Aten and Alan Heston: Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potential and Limitations; 7: Angus Deaton: Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World); 8: Robert Johnston: Poverty or Income Distribution: Which Do We Want to Measure?; 9: Ivo Havinga, Gisele Kamanou and Vu Quang Viet: A Note on the (Mis)Use of National Accounts for Estimation of Household Final Consumption Expenditures for Poverty Measures; 10: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David Stewart: Unequal Development in the 1990s: Growing Gaps in Human Capabilities; Part II: Regional and Country Studies; 11:Albert Berry: Improving Measurement of Latin American Inequality and Poverty with an Eye to Equitable Growth Policy; 12: Carl Riskin and Qin Gao: The Changing Nature of Urban Poverty in China; 13: Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion: China is Poorer than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight against Poverty; 14: K. Sundaram and Suresh D. Tendulkar: Poverty Decline in India in the 1990s : A Reality and Not an Artifact; 15: David E. Sahn and Stephen Younger: Living Standards in Africa

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955803-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 04/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés