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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 GlobalPoverty; 4. Irrelevance of the $1 a Day Poverty Line; 5. Use of CountryPurchasing Power Parities for International Comparisons of Poverty Levels:Potential and Limitations; 6. Measuring poverty in a growing world (ormeasuring growth in a poor world); 7. Poverty or income distribution: Whichdo we want to measure?; 8. A note on the (mis)use of national accounts forestimation 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 anEye to Equitable Growth Policy; PART II; 11. The Changing Nature of UrbanPoverty in China; 12. China is poorer than we thought; 13. Poverty Decline inIndia in the 1990s : A Reality And Not An Artefact; 14. Living Standards inAfrica