Debates on the measurement of global poverty

Debates in the Measurement of Global Poverty: Introduction PART I 1. The Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Why Measurement Matters 2. How not to count the poor 3. Raising the Standard: the War on Global Poverty 4. Irrelevance of the $1 a Day Poverty Line 5. Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potential and Limitations 6. Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world) 7. Poverty or income distribution: Which do we want to measure? 8. A note on the (mis)use of national accounts for estimation of household final consumption expenditures for poverty measures 9. Unequal development in the 1990s: Focusing on gaps in human capabilities 10. Improving Measurement of Latin American Inequality and Poverty with an Eye to Equitable Growth Policy PART II 11. The Changing Nature of Urban Poverty in China 12. China is poorer than we thought 13. Poverty Decline in India in the 1990s : A Reality And Not An Artefact 14. Living Standards in Africa