OPHI
Oxford Poverty &
Human Development Initiative
our
purpose
To build a multidimensional economic
framework for reducing poverty grounded in
people’s experiences and values.
OPHI researchers contribute to new UNICEF child poverty book
A new UNICEF volume features a chapter by OPHI's Sabina Alkire and José Manuel Roche that explains how the Alkire Foster method can be used to create multidimensional measures of child poverty that take account of the intensity of children's deprivations. The chapter ‘Beyond Headcount: Measures that Reflect the Breadth and Components of Child Poverty’ also explains the policy-relevance of using a multidimensional lens on deprivation in childhood.
The new UNICEF book Child Poverty and Inequality: New Perspectives also contains chapters by Sir Richard Jolly, Alberto Minujin, Deepa Narayan, Paul Collier, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, and many others. Read more
Celebrating Bhutan’s landmark Gross National Happiness Index
The Government of Bhutan has developed the majestic idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH) into a set of practical tools which includes a fully updated GNH Index. Read more.
'GNH and GNH Index: A Short Guide to the GNH Index', publication by the Centre for Bhutan Studies.
Summer School 2012 on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
Indonesia 23 August to 4 September 2012 
Applications are now open for the annual OPHI-HDCA Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty. The intensive two-week course provides a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to current literature and techniques of multidimensional measurement and of statistical analysis. Read more
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
- In-depth information on the new index
- Detailed briefing paper
- Stories of empowered and disempowered women
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