Fanni Kovesdi
Biography
Fanni is a Research Analyst at OPHI. Since joining OPHI in 2018, she has worked on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (global MPI) and Changes over Time projects, harmonizing global MPI data to analyse trends in poverty for 80 countries.
Prior to joining OPHI, she worked on an ESRC-funded research project on dual career couple trajectories and has completed internships at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Child Hub for Southeast Europe.
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Education
MSc in Sociology, University of Oxford
BSc in Politics and Sociology, University of Bristol -
Research interests
Inequality; poverty; wellbeing; social identities and migration.
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Selected publications
Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Scheja, E. and Vollmer, F. (2023). ‘Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the Way Out of Poverty’, Social Indicators Research, published 27 May 2023.
Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty across ethnic groups: Disaggregating the global MPI’, OPHI Briefing 55. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., F. Kovesdi, M. Pinilla-Roncancio and S. Scharlin-Pettee. (2020). ‘Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index and other measures: Towards national poverty reports’, OPHI Research in Progress 57a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Mitchell, C., Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2020). ‘Changes over Time in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 50, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.