Imagine There's No Country : Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Received Wisdom on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth -- Chapter 1 Overview: New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and the 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Section II Discussion of Knowledge on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth and Analysis of Data and Methodologies -- Chapter 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.