furthermore the new world bank line is not based on the united states rate of inflation had it been taken into account the original would have become for with obvious implications for the corresponding estimates of numbers of persons in poverty and hence for the achievement of the millennium development goals poverty target by in addition the new round follows an inconsistent procedure with regard to correcting for ruralurban price differences applying it only to the cases of india and china and there too essentially using urban prices thereby introducing what himanshu calls an urban bias in either case the present world poverty estimates are flawed and an odd aspect of this is that the selective urbanrural adjustment now made reduces measured world poverty whereas in an earlier paper chen and ravallion had reported that world poverty at ppp increases by about percentage points when such a ruralurban distinction is made in undp topped this absurdity by suggesting that the us criterion of per day might be applied to the oecd countries