著者紹介

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1. Introduction; PART I: MEASURING GLOBAL POVERTY; 2. The Debate onGlobalization, Poverty and Inequality: Why Measurement Matters; 3. How Not toCount the Poor; 3a A Reply to Reddy and Pogge; 3b How Many Poor People ShouldThere Be?; 4. Raising the Standard: The War on Global Poverty; 5. Irrelevanceof the $1-a-Day Poverty Line; 6. Use of Country Purchasing Power Parities forInternational Comparisons of Poverty Levels: Potential and Limitations; 7.Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World);8. Poverty or Income Distribution: Which Do We Want to Measure?; 9. A Note onthe (Mis)Use of National Accounts for Estimation of Household FinalConsumption Expenditures for Poverty Measures; 10. Unequal Development in the1990s: Growing Gaps in Human Capabilities; PART II: REGIONAL AND COUNTRYSTUDIES; 11. Improving Measurement of Latin American Inequality and Povertywith an Eye to Equitable Growth Policy; 12. The Changing Nature of UrbanPoverty in China; 13. China is Poorer than We Thought, but No Less Successfulin the Fight against Poverty; 14. Poverty Decline in India in the 1990s : AReality and Not an Artifact; 15. Living Standards in Africa