4th May 2011
OPHI Working Paper 32, ‘Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement’ by Sabina Alkire and James Foster has been published online in the Journal of Public Economics.
The Former Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay delivered the main key note address at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford University on 9th January as the main event of the three-day International Society of Bhutan Studies (ISBS) conference.
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The International Society for Bhutan Studies (ISBS) inaugural conference in Magdalen College, Oxford University made the important first step of discussing and studying the diverse and less discussed aspects of Bhutan in a large international academic setting. More importantly, it set up and gave shape to an independent international ‘Bhutan studies’ group in its own right.
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Monday 28 NovemberDo alternative measures of poverty matter? A comparison between consumption poverty and multidimensional poverty in Indonesia
With: Usha Kanagaratnam, DPhil candidate
Monday 21 November
Multidimensional poverty in China 2010-2014 Presentation
With: Yangyang Shen, OPHI
Monday 14 November
Changes in multidimensional poverty among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa – Results for 35 Countries
With: Christoph Jindra, OPHI
Monday 7 November
Measurement and determinants of child multidimensional poverty in Senegal
With: Bouba Housseini, OPHI
Monday 31 October
The research agenda on multidimensional poverty: important and as-yet unanswered questions
With: Dr Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI
Monday 24 October
The Role of Natural Resources in the Aid-Growth-Poverty Puzzle
With: Juliana Milovich, University Paris Nanterre, France.
Monday 17 October
From academic research to policy and impact: lessons learned from OPHI Presentation
With: John Hammock, Co-founder of OPHI
Monday 10 October
Global MPI 2016 Presentation
With: Dr Sabina Alkire, Christoph Jindra, Bouba Housseini & Yangyang Shen
Monday 7 March
Changes in Multidimensional Poverty - some preliminary new results
With: Christoph Jindra, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 29 February
Dynamic Measurement of China's Multidimensional Poverty and Stability Analysis - based on a comparison with income poverty Presentation
With: Yingfeng Fang, Wuhan University
Monday 22 February
Growth and Poverty Revisited from a Multidimensional Perspective Presentation
With: Maria Emma Santos, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas & OPHI
Monday 15 February
China's Global MPI Presentation
With: Yangyang Shen, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 8 February
A Typology for the Measures of Poverty Using Multiple Deprivation Indicators Presentation
With: Selcuk Beduk, Department of Social Policy & Intervention, University of Oxford
Monday 1 February
Measuring Autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh Presentation
With: Ana Vaz, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 25 January
Measuring Multidimensional Poverty for Children aged 0-17: an exploratory analysis
With: Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI
Monday 18 January
Work and Well-being. A Conceptual Suggestion based on the Capability Approach Presentation
With: Nicolai Suppa, Technical University of Dortmund
Monday 30 November
Multidimensional poverty in Brazil, 2000-2010
With: Adriana Stankiewicz Serra, Institute of Economics - University of Campinas, Brazil and Leeds University Business School
Monday 23 November
Missing the unhealthy? Examining the empirical validity of the Material Deprivation Indices of poverty Presentation
With: Selcuk Beduk, Department of Social Policy & Intervention, University of Oxford
Monday 16 November
Measuring malnutrition and dietary diversity: Theory and evidence from India Presentation
With: Christian Oldiges, Heidelberg University
Monday 9 November
MPI - A Stata command for the Alkire-Foster method Presentation
With: Christoph Jindra, OPHI, University of Oxford
Monday 2 November
Union vs intermediate approach to identification of poverty and some policy implications Presentation
With: Gisela Robles Aguilar, OPHI, University of Oxford
Monday 26 October
Measuring deprivation with exogenous weighting schemes and the possibility of heterogeneous target levels
With: Anders Herlitz(1) & David Horan(2), 1)Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg & Department of Philosophy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2)Department of Economics, Oxford Brookes University
Monday 19 October
The aspirational power of measuring poverty: How the Poverty Stoplight can complement the MPI Presentation
With: Katharina Hammler, Fundación Paraguaya
Monday 12 October
Introduction to OPHI
With: Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI
Monday 9 March
‘A Multidimensional Poverty Index in the Sustainable Development Goals - interim reflections’ Presentation
With: Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
Monday 2 March
‘Identifying the destitute: An ordinal approach for identifying linked subsets of multidimensionally poor’
With: Suman Seth, Senior Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 23 February
‘Economic growth, inequality and multidimensional poverty: Evidence from a panel of countries’
With: Bouba Housseini, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 16 February
Multidimensional poverty of households with disabled members in five Latin American countries
With: Monica Pinilla, DPhil student at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
Monday 9 February
‘Inequality, growth and living standards in the OECD’ Presentation
With: Brian Nolan, Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford and Director of the Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Monday 2 February
‘An exploration of the multidimensional poverty of women at household and individual level’ Presentation
With: Gisela Robles Aguilar, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 26 January
‘Measuring women’s autonomy in Chad and its associations with breastfeeding practices’ Presentation
With: Ana Vaz, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 1 December
'Robust pro-poorest poverty reduction with counting measures: the anonymous case' Presentation
With: Gaston Yalonetzky, Lecturer of Economics, University of Leeds
Monday 24 November
'Multidimensional poverty and inequality' Presentation
With: Bouba Housseini, OPHI Research Officer
Monday 17 November
'Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries' Presentation
With: Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
Monday 10 November
'Multidimensional poverty and inclusive growth in India: An analysis using growth elasticities' Presentation
With: Suman Seth, Senior Research Officer, OPHI
Tuesday 4 November
Special Guest Lecture at 5pm: 'The Art, the (Social) Science and the Politics of Building State Capability for Implementation' Presentation
With: Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, World Bank
Monday 27 October
'Understanding later life from a multidimensional perspective' Presentation
With: Jiweon Jun, Research Officer, Centre for Time Use Research, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Monday 20 October
'An empirical exploration of the “Shame of poverty” for Chile in 2009' Presentation
With: Gisela Robles Aguilar, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 13 October
'Introduction to OPHI' Presentation
With: Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
Thursday 13 March
'Measuring human development index: The old, the new and the elegant' Presentation
With: Srijit Mishra, Associate Professor, Indira Ghandi Institute of Development Research
Thursday 6 March
'Assessing the impact of corruption on peace and development: A look at the Global Peace Index and the Mexico Peace Index'
With: Thomas Morgan, Research Fellow, Institute of Economics and Peace
Thursday 27 February
'Who are the poorest of the poor? Assessing Ultra Poverty in Developing Countries'
With: Suman Seth, Research Officer OPHI
Thursday 20 February
'Dynamics and drivers of consumption and multidimensional poverty: Evidence from rural Ethiopia' Presentation
With: Sindu W. Kebede, Post Doctoral Researcher, Humboldt University
Thursday 13 February
'Are there ethnic inequality traps in education? Evidence from Brazil and Chile' Presentation
With: Adriana Conconi, Research Officer OPHI
Thursday 6 February
'Multidimensional poverty and impact evaluation' Presentation
With: Ana Vaz, Research Officer OPHI
Thursday 23 January
'The methodologies of computing changes over time in multidimensional poverty: Comparisons and contrasts' Presentation
With: Sabina Alkire, Director OPHI
OPHI Briefing 52 (pdf 6 pages)
La publicación de dos cifras de pobreza, una de ellas multidimensional, constituye un reto comunicacional para cualquier gobierno: no solo hay que explicar las razones por las que se ha decidido llevar adelante ambas mediciones, o la razón detrás de cifras diferentes, sino que se debe hacer frente al reto de traducir aspectos muy técnicos a un lenguaje entendible para una audiencia general. Durante el proceso colombiano se presentaron algunas dificultades comunicacionales que fueron particularmente evidentes a través de una serie de errores en la difusión de la medida en los medios de comunicación. Para enfrentar esta situación, el DANE diseñó un taller para periodistas con el objetivo de explicar las diferencias entre las cifras y metodologías de pobreza.
Author: Silvia Botello
Language: Spanish
Year: 2019
Citation: Botello, S. (2019). ‘¿Cómo explicar la medición de la pobreza multidimensional a la opinión pública? Taller para periodistas en Colombia.’ OPHI Briefing 52, University of Oxford.
OPHI Briefing 51 (pdf 6 pages)
En julio de 2016, se emitió en Costa Rica la Directriz Presidencial N°045-MP en que se instó a todos los funcionarios del sector social a utilizar el Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional nacional como una herramienta oficial de medición, de información para asignación de recursos, de seguimiento y evaluación de los programas sociales. Previo al trabajo de cada institución para comenzar a planificar sus presupuestos considerando el IPM-CR, se realizó un ejercicio de simulación del posible impacto que tendría esta labor sobre la reducción de la pobreza multidimensional, cuyos resultados son el interés de este artículo. Este trabajo teórico fue realizado gracias a la alianza público privada entre el Gobierno de Costa Rica y la Asociación Horizonte Positivo, quienes se apoyaron en la firma consultora Cocobolo para el análisis estadístico de los datos.
Author: Andrés Fernández Arauz
Language: Spanish
Year: 2019
Citation: Fernández Arauz, A. (2019). ‘El IPM para alcanzar las metas de reducción de la pobreza’. OPHI Briefing 51, University of Oxford.
Wednesday 9th January 2019, Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford, 2.30pm- 6.30pm The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is delighted to announce an afternoon of two Distinguished Public Lectures on Bhutan, by the Former Prime Minister of Bhutan, His Excellency Dasho Tshering Tobgay, and the President of the Center for Bhutan Studies & Gross National Happiness, Dasho Karma Ura. This event is free, and tickets are open to the public. Please book your ticket here. Event details, 9th January 2019, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford: 2:30-4:00pm His Excellency Dasho Tshering Tobgay will speak on The First Ten Years of Democracy: Reflections from Bhutan. 5:00-6:30pm Dasho Karma Ura will give a lecture on Development with Integrity: Bhutan’s development and its Gross National Happiness Index, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Professor Louise Richardson. Discussants include Martine Durand (Chief Statistician, OECD) and James Foster (Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University). This event is part of the International Society of Bhutan Studies (ISBS) launch conference, taking place at Magdalen College, Oxford during 8-10th January 2019. The conference seeks to develop the study of Bhutanese culture, life and nature in all aspects and encourage, inspire and motivate interest in lesser known aspects and promote and strengthen the areas of existing concentration. ISBS exists primarily to encourage academic exchange, among both Bhutanese and foreign scholars, and secondarily to contribute to the happiness of future generations. For information about the wider conference, please visit the conference website here. For further information please email: isbsbhutan@gmail.comThe purpose of this research is to evaluate the short-term impact and long-term sustainability of Kenya’s Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP). Difference-in-difference and propensity score matching estimations are used to determine the impact of programme participation on the household multidimensional poverty index (MPI). We found that programme participation reduced the MPI significantly, which is mainly driven by the food insecurity dimension, and that the reduction in poverty is due to the reduction in the incidence and intensity, the latter in particular, of poverty among the ultra-poor households. Our analysis of the political economy of Kenya suggests that, while the government is making progress in the institutionalisation of social protection, weaknesses in the implementation and financing of the programme, as well as the short-term focus of impact evaluation, may undermine the programme’s potential to help build a strong state that is accountable for the eradication of poverty.
Citation: Song, S. and Imai, K.S. (2018). ‘Does the Hunger Safety Net Programme reduce Multidimensional poverty?: Evidence from Kenya’, OPHI Working Paper 124, University of Oxford.
Authors: Sophie Song and Katsushi S. Imai
Publication date: December 2018
JEL Codes: C23, I31, I32, I38, O22
ISBN: 978-19-1229-115-1
Copyright holder: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
Final Communiqué Presentations Photos Agenda Concept Note
The 6th Annual Meeting of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 30 October – 1 November 2018. The meeting was hosted by the Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation responsible for Statistics South Africa, with the support of the Department of Social Development and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
This dynamic meeting featured South-South exchanges about how countries and institutions were measuring and tackling multidimensional poverty to help improve the lives of the poor. Special attention was given to how the measures could be used for policy action and how to report the measures for tracking progress towards the SDGs.
At the opening session on 30 October, participants heard a keynote address from Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who also answered questions from the attendees about her experience with poverty reduction policies in South Africa. As the Minister said: “This meeting gives us a chance to work together in a South-South cooperation, to listen to each other, to hear about examples of best practice initiatives, and, most importantly, to learn from one another.” This was followed by a panel discussion on MPI uses from different regional participants. The afternoon was spent on an excursion organized by the Department of Social Development to two nearby community centres working with the poor at the grassroots level.
On 31 October, there was an introduction from Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI, reviewing the MPPN’s activities for the past year. The substance then opened with a keynote address by Gonzalo Hernandez Licona, Executive Secretary of CONEVAL in Mexico. The first in-depth panel discussed experiences in developing, communicating, and launching a National MPI, with presentations from Malaysia, Morocco, Mozambique, and South Africa.
In the afternoon, representatives from the Seychelles, Chad, Kenya, Thailand, and Tanzania presented on the work they were currently doing to develop multidimensional poverty measures. The OPHI team then shared key findings from the recently revised global MPI 2018. This was followed by the second in-depth panel, focused on using an MPI for policy action, with inputs from Chile, Mexico, Panama, and Vietnam.
1 November opened with the third and final in-depth panel, featuring presentations from representatives of international agencies, including SADC, Sida, UNDP, UNICEF, UN-ECLAC, UN-ESCWA, and OPHI. The day continued with the final keynote presentation, this one from Risenga Maluleke, Statistician General of Statistics South Africa. The participants then had an open dialogue about negotiating different measures of multidimensional poverty and reporting progress towards the SDGs. The meeting closed with discussion of the communiqué and work plan for the coming year.
More information:
- Final Communiqué
- Presentations
- Photos
- Agenda
- Concept Note
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