News
- Measure of deprivation ~ The Kathmandu Post
- The Times of India
- A new and more exact yardstick ~ Kuensel Newspaper
- Bhutan to adopt more inclusive poverty index ~ Bhutan Observer
- MPI Poverty ~ Indian Express
- Poverty is about more than money ~ The Guardian
- Huffington Post on Multidimensional Poverty Index
- A Many-Headed Beast ~ The Economist Blog
- Remeasuring Poverty ~ Philanthrocapitalism
- Sabina Alkire Interviewed on Poverty Indexes by The Economist
- A wealth of data ~ The Economist
- Poverty index: who is the poorest of them all? ~ The Lancet
- Multidimensional Poverty Index ~ TIME Magazine
- Interview with Sabina Alkire ~ The Hindu
- New poverty index finds Indian states worse than Africa ~ Dawn
- MPI: a progressive approach to poverty ~ New Statesman
- Interview with Sabina Alkire ~ BBC Radio 4 -Today Programme 14th July 2010
- ‘More poor’ in India than Africa ~ BBC News 14th July 2010
- More of world’s poor live in India than in all sub-Saharan Africa ~ Guardian, 14 July 2010
- Qualitative Work on Missing Dimensions in Mali, Philippines and Bolivia
Measure of deprivation ~ The Kathmandu Post
Oped on the Multidimensional Poverty Index, recently launched by OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report, and poverty in Nepal. Read article.
The Times of India
India’s Minister of state for planning V. Narayanasamy notes the number of multidimensionally poor people in eight Indian States according to the new index released by OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report. Read article.
A new and more exact yardstick ~ Kuensel Newspaper
Multidimensional Poverty Index 20 August, 2010 – “If we have a measure of poverty which is not perfect but which is a little bit better, then it is like shining a light in a different part of a dark room,” said Dr Sabina Alkire, director of the Oxford poverty and human development initiative. “You can see different aspects of their lives, and therefore you can address their predicaments in new ways.”…read full article.
Bhutan to adopt more inclusive poverty index ~ Bhutan Observer
By next year, Bhutan will adopt Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a new method of measuring poverty, replacing the traditional income-based (one dollar a day) method…read full article.
MPI Poverty ~ Indian Express
Read full article in the Indian Express
Poverty ratios below a poverty line don’t capture everything about poverty. The multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) will be incorporated into this year’s HDR. Comparing apples with apples, 55% of India’s population is poor under MPI (2005 data), 42% below $1.25 a day, 76% below $2 a day and 29% below the national poverty line…read full article.
Poverty is about more than money ~ The Guardian
Read full opinion piece by Kaushik Barua in the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’
“Poverty is a cruel wild animal. If you doze, it eats you up.” You probably don’t have much in common (as I don’t) with Kevina, a 60-year-old woman who works her land in Uganda and described her life thus to a large participatory survey covering poor households and communities. She, along with a billion other people, understands poverty as we never will. How do we measure poverty?…read full article.
Huffington Post on Multidimensional Poverty Index
Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world, followed by South Asia, according to a new measure developed by Oxford University, with support from the U.N…read the full article in the Huffington Post.
A Many-Headed Beast ~ The Economist Blog
Read the full article published in The Economist’s Blog ‘Economics: Free Exchange’ on 2 August 2010
THIS week, we carried a piece about a new cross-country poverty index devised by a group of researchers at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, which is designed to capture several dimensions of poverty at once. The idea, as the piece explains, is that some aspects of poverty (say, nutrition) may not always move perfectly with income, so that looking directly at how many people are deprived along several (admittedly subjectively chosen) dimensions at once may give researchers and policymakers a better handle on just what poor people lack, and what could be done to deal with these problems… read the full article.
Remeasuring Poverty ~ Philanthrocapitalism
Talking about the number of people living on or below a “dollar a day” is a simple, effective way of telling the story of progress (or the lack of it) in reducing global poverty. But focusing on income alone has obvious limitations as a measure of extreme poverty… Read the full article by Matthew Bishop on the Multidimensional Poverty Index.
Sabina Alkire Interviewed on Poverty Indexes by The Economist
OPHI Director is interviewed by The Economist on a new international measur of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index, recently launched by OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report. Listen to the podcast of the interview in ‘A Word with The Economist’.
A wealth of data ~ The Economist
WHAT IS poverty and when is a person poor? Most would agree that poverty involves not having enough of certain things, or doing without others that richer people take for granted. But what is “enough”, which goods and services really matter, and who should decide these questions—researchers, governments or international agencies—are less tractable issues. Read the full article on the new Multidimensional Poverty Index, recently launched by OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report Office in the Economist.
Poverty index: who is the poorest of them all? ~ The Lancet
Editorial published in The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9737, Page 206, 24 July 2010, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61125-7
In a working paper by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Oxford, UK, this month, Sabine Akire and Maria Emma Santos present a new method for measuring and comparing poverty in 104 developing countries: the multidimensional poverty index (MPI).
Multidimensional Poverty Index ~ TIME Magazine
A new international measure of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index – that OPHI recently launched with the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report is featured in the Briefing Section: World’s 10 Essential Stories of TIME Magazine this week.
TIME Magazine’s Briefing section, P 8, 26/7/2010:
“4. India: New Poverty Index unveiled.
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, in conjunction with the UN has revealed a new measure of global poverty, which concludes that eight Indian states acount for more poor people than the 26 poorest African nations combined. The Multidimensional Poverty Index assesses a ‘range of deprivations that a household may suffer’, including a lack of education, health care and empowerment.”
Interview with Sabina Alkire ~ The Hindu
OPHI’s Sabina Alkire is interviewed by The Hindu about the new Multidimensional Poverty Index. Read the interview.
New poverty index finds Indian states worse than Africa ~ Dawn
More people are mired in poverty in eight Indian states than in the 26 poorest African countries, according to a new UN-backed measure of poverty out Tuesday. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) looks beyond income at a wider range of household-level deprivation, including services, which could then be used to help target development resources.
MPI: a progressive approach to poverty ~ New Statesman
At an extremely optimistic Human Development Report Office policy forum today the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative revealed its new Multidimensional Poverty Index. The index measures multiple types of deprivations (ten in all), so providing a detailed picture of not just who is poor, but in what way they are poor.
Interview with Sabina Alkire ~ BBC Radio 4 -Today Programme 14th July 2010
A new way of measuring global poverty is being launched today. Called the Multidimensional Poverty Index, it aims to give a more accurate picture of world poverty. Dr Sabina Alkire outlines the way the new index assesses a range of critical deprivations.
‘More poor’ in India than Africa ~ BBC News 14th July 2010
The Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, have 421 million “poor” people, the study found.
This is more than the 410 million poor in the poorest African countries, it said.
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures a range of “deprivations” at household levels.
When the vast central Indian Madhya Pradesh state, which has a population of 70 million, was compared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the war-racked African state of 62 million inhabitants, the two were found to have near-identical levels of poverty.”
More of world’s poor live in India than in all sub-Saharan Africa ~ Guardian, 14 July 2010
There are more poor people in eight states of India than in the 26 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, a study reveals today.
More than 410 million people live in poverty in the Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, researchers at Oxford University found. The “intensity” of the poverty in parts of India is equal to, if not worse than, that in Africa.”
Qualitative Work on Missing Dimensions in Mali, Philippines and Bolivia
This summer OPHI is carrying out qualitative work and cognitive interviews in the Philippines and Bolivia to validate and refine OPHI’s Missing Dimensions modules on Empowerment and Shame and Isolation. Marcos Medina has been commissioned to carry out qualitative work in the Philippines which will be done in close collaboration with the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS). Emily Hedin, recipient of an OPHI student grant, will conduct fieldwork for her MPhil thesis in El Altos, Bolivia. She will work in close collaboration with a local NGO and perform cognitive interviews with Aymara women to test OPHI’s Empowerment module. Both of these qualitative field studies will provide valuable data to validate and refine OPHI’s Missing Dimensions modules. Further qualitative work will also be carried out by Dr. Emma Samman in Tanzania and by Elise Klein in Mali.
