Subject(s): How to count the poor -- poverty line -- Income Distribution -- Measuring global poverty : Debate on globalization, poverty and inequality, raising standard-war on global poverty, irrelevance of $ 1 a day poverty line, use of country purchasing power parities for international comparisons of poverty levels- potential and limitations -- Measuring poverty in a growing world, poverty or income distribution, note on use of national accounts for estimation of household final consumption expenditures for poverty measures, unequal development in 1990s- growing gaps in human capabilities -- Regional and country studies : Improving measurement of Latin American inequality and poverty with an eye to equity growth policy, changing nature of urban poverty in China, China and poverty, poverty decline in Indian in 1990s, living standards in Africa