Imagine there's no country : poverty, inequality, and growth in the era of globalization /
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| Author / Creator: | Bhalla, Surjit S. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics, c2002. |
| Description: | xix, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4740780 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. Received Wisdom on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth
- 1. Overview: New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization
- The Issues
- The Framework and the Data
- A Bird's Eye View
- A More Detailed Overview
- Results on Absolute Poverty
- Results on Propoor Growth
- Has Globalization Worsened Inequality?
- Has Globalization Been Good for Poor People?
- Research and Monopolies
- 2. The Pattern of Economic Growth, 1950-2000
- Data and Methods of Estimating Growth
- Global Levels of Income and Growth
- Globalization: Divergence
- Evidence of Convergence or Divergence
- 3. Inequality as We Know It
- Measuring Inequality
- Measuring Intertemporal Inequality
- Simple Inequality Mathematics
- Inequality: Kuznets Curve and Data Requirements
- Recent Evidence on Country Inequality
- The Evidence Once Again
- Tests of Inequality Change
- Elasticity of Connection, 1960-2000
- Country-Level Inequality
- Toward Individual Inequality Estimates
- Individual Inequality
- Summing Up: The Facts as We Know Them
- 4. Poverty as We Are Told It Is
- Defining and Measuring Absolute Poverty
- Poverty in the United States
- The World Bank Enters the Poverty Arena
- First Absolute Poverty Line, Estimates, and Forecasts
- The Search for an Absolute Absolute Measure
- Rediscovering the $1-a-Day Poverty Line
- The Poverty Line Reduced
- Evolving World Bank Definitions of Poverty
- II. Discussion of Knowledge on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth and Analysis of Data and Methodologies
- 5. Taking Stock of the Facts
- The Global Pie, 1960-2000
- Inequality Trends
- Poverty Trends
- Not Propoor Growth
- Is the Conventional Wisdom Correct?
- Facts and Figures
- The Importance of Data
- Duck and Smell Tests to Differentiate
- Experts Debate
- Elasticity of the Gini with Growth
- Poverty "Smell" Tests
- The Need for Alternative Studies
- 6. Recounting Poor People
- Definitions and Methods
- Using Different PPP Exchange Rates
- Differences between World Bank Consumption and and Official PPPs
- All Indians Were Dead in 1950, or 1960
- 7. Surveys and National Accounts: Can a Choice Be Made?
- What Is the Problem?
- There Is a Problem Even in the United States
- In Defense of Surveys
- What Happened to the Survey/National Accounts Ratio?
- Unintended Consequences of Moving to Survey Means
- Do National Accounts Estimates Have Problems?
- Choosing between Surveys and National Accounts
- By How Much Do Rich People Understate Expenditures?
- Estimating Undercoverage of Rich People
- The SAP $1.50 Poverty Line
- "Smell" Tests for Indian Poverty Estimates
- Should Surveys or National Accounts Be Used? Or Both?
- 8. Other Methodological Considerations
- The Individual versus Countries
- Simple Accounting Procedure for Generating W3i
- The Kakwani Method of Estimating a Lorenz Curve
- Is SAP Accurate?
- Using SAP to Identify Errors in Published Ginis
- III. New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth, Based on Simple Accounting Procedure Methods
- 9. Poverty as It Is--and Forecasts for 2015
- How Much Poverty Is There in the World?
- Where Did Poverty Decline from 1960 to 2000?
- The Evolution of World Poverty, 1820-2000
- A Digression: How Do You Assess the Best?
- Regional Poverty Trends
- Time to Raise the Poverty Line
- Forecasts for 2000 and 2015
- 10. Reinventing the Kuznets Curve: Propoor Growth
- The Search for Propoor Growth
- The Growth-Poverty Connection
- Propoor Elasticity
- Propoor Mathematics
- Empirical Estimates of Propoor Growth
- Estimating Propoor Elasticity
- Has Global Growth Been Propoor?
- Using Consistent Data
- Is the Initial Income Distribution Important?
- A Simple Method for Estimating Propoor Growth
- Forecast of Poverty in 2015
- 11. Inequality as It Is
- SAR Results for World Inequality, 1950-2000
- Regions and Indices
- Individual Inequality Studies Compared
- How Accurate Are the SAP Estimates?
- Poor People Have a High Elasticity of Connection
- What Happened with Global Inequality?
- The Relationship between Growth and Inequality
- The Middle Class
- 12. Globalization: A Second Look
- Income: Before and After
- Convergence: New Results
- Catch-Up with Globalization
- Is There a Poverty-Terrorism Connection?
- The Evolution of Living Standards, 1960-2000
- 13. Conclusion: Roads Not Taken
- Different Forks for Different Folks
- Answers to Often-Asked Questions
- Appendix A. The Simple Accounting Procedure Dataset
- Appendix B. Estimation of the Lorenz Curve, and Its Accuracy
- Appendix C. Basic Data for the Simple Accounting Procedure
- References
- Index
- Tables
- Table 1.1. Some new and different results for poverty, inequality, and growth in the era of globalization, 1980-2000
- Table 2.1. Annualized per capita growth rates according to various measures of GDP
- Table 2.2. GDP of global regions, 1950-2000
- Table 2.3. Population of global regions, 1950-2000
