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Title:
Debates on the measurement of global poverty / edited by Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xvii, 446 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Poverty.
Other Authors:
Anand, Sudhir, 1946-
Segal, Paul, 1977-
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Living standards in Africa / The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality : why measurement matters / David E. Sahn and Stephen D. Younger. 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, Gisè€le 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.
Series:
The Initiative for Policy Dialogue series.
ISBN:
0199558035 (hbk.)
9780199558032 (hbk.)
0199558043 (pbk.)
9780199558049 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)435730817
LCCN:
2010277695
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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