New Frontiers in Poverty Measurement
Speaker(s):
James Foster
Other
Monday 30th April 2012
15:00 - 16:00 BST
Oxford Department of International Development
OPHI hosted a special seminar with Professor James E. Foster at the University of Oxford on New Frontiers in Poverty Measurement on April 30. This special seminar was co-hosted with the Department of Economics.
James E. Foster is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University and a Research Associate at OPHI. His research focuses on welfare economics — using economic tools to evaluate the well-being of people. His joint 1984 Econometrica paper is one of the most cited papers on poverty. The paper introduced the FGT Index, which has been used in thousands of studies and was the