Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-955804-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Initiative for Policy Dialogue

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.

Zielgruppe

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anand, Sudhir

Segal, Paul

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I
1: Martin Ravallion: The Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Why Measurement Matters
2: Sanjay G. Reddy and Thomas W. Pogge: How not to count the poor
3: Surjit Bhalla: Raising the Standard: the War on Global Poverty
4: T. N. Srinivasan: Irrelevance of the $1 a Day Poverty Line
5: Bettina Aten and Alan Heston: Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potential and Limitations
6: Angus Deaton: Measuring poverty in a growing world (or measuring growth in a poor world)
7: Robert Johnston: Poverty or income distribution: Which do we want to measure?
8: Ivo Havinga, Gisele Kamanou and Viet Vu: A note on the (mis)use of national accounts for estimation of household final consumption expenditures for poverty measures
9: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David Stewart: Unequal development in the 1990s: Focusing on gaps in human capabilities
10: Albert Berry: Improving Measurement of Latin American Inequality and Poverty with an Eye to Equitable Growth Policy
Part II
11: Carl Riskin and Qin Gao: The Changing Nature of Urban Poverty in China
12: Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion: China is poorer than we thought
13: Suresh D .Tendulkar, and K. Sundaram: Poverty Decline in India in the 1990s : A Reality And Not An Artefact
14: David Sahn, Stephen Younger: Living Standards in Africa

Über Autor(innen)

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