Count The Poor" (2002), forcefully argue that the WB's PPP's estimates are "neither meaningful or reliable." The emphasis is on the WB's research team "employing a misleading and inaccurate measure of purchasing power equivalence that creates serious and irreparable difficulties for international comparisons of income poverty" A very similar analysis can be also found in Branko Milanovic's tour de force "Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality" (Princeton),which was written while Branko was a WB staff officer in charge of gathering and analyzing data. So unless Ulhas can present quantitative and methodological refutation to these serious studies, the fairy tales charge should be on him.and the other apologists of neo-lib globalization. Cristobal Senior -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20050812/92f920f4/attachment.htm>