Sudhir Anand / Paul Segal / Joseph E. Stiglitz (Hrsg.)

Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty

Mitarbeit: Anand, Sudhir, Segal, Paul, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Readership: Academics and students of economics, particularly those interested in development economics and global poverty. Policymakers, policy advocates and NGOs.

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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 progress is being made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Produktdetails

• Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 23, 5 cm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199558049
• ISBN-10: 0199558043
• Artikelnr.: 27855344

Autorenporträt

Edited by Sudhir Anand, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College, Paul Segal, Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford., and Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia University

Contributors:
Sudhir Anand, University of Oxford
Paul Segal, University of Oxford
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group, World Bank
Sanjay G. Reddy, Barnard College, Columbia University
Thomas W. Pogge, Australian National University and Yale University
Surjit Bhalla, Oxus Research and Investments
T. N. Srinivasan, Yale University
Bettina Aten, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Alan Heston, University of Pennsylvania
Angus Deaton, Princeton University
Robert Johnston
Ivo Havinga
Gisele Kamanou
Viet Vu
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School
David Stewart
Albert Berry, University of Toronto
Carl Riskin, Queens College, CUNY and Columbia University
Qin Gao, Fordham University
Shaohua Chen, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank
Suresh D .Tendulkar, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
K. Sundaram, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
David Sahn, Cornell University
Stephen Younger, Cornell University

Inhaltsangabe

* 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