DPhil in Economics, University of Oxford
MSc in Economics for Development, University of Oxford
MPhil in Christian Political Ethics, University of Oxford
BA Sociology Cognate, Pre-Medical Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis; welfare economics; the capability approach; the measurement of freedoms and human development.

2025

Ul Haq, R. and Alkire, S. (2025). ‘Measuring children’s multidimensional poverty under constraints: An empirical exploration in Punjab, Pakistan’, OPHI Research in Progress 69a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Zangmo, T. and Alkire, S. (2025). 'Use of Multidimensional Poverty Index for rural geographic and household targeting: A case study from Bhutan', OPHI Briefing 59, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2025). ‘Eradicating poverty effectively: Concise, strategic data to tackle the greatest global challenge’, CDP Policy Brief No. 2, United Nations Committee for Development Policy.

Alkire, S. (2025). ‘Resilient human development: Advancing human development amidst shocks and crises’, OPHI Research in Progress 68a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2025). ‘Resilient human development: Advancing human development amidst shocks and crises’, Regional Human Development Report 2025, Background Paper, UNDP LAC Working Paper 41.

Alkire, S. and Ul Haq, R. (2025). ‘Analyzing individual disadvantages alongside household poverty to illuminate gendered and intrahousehold disparities’, OPHI Working Paper 146, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Vaz, A. and Oldiges, C. (2025). ‘Strengthening the policy impact of multidimensional metrics given attention constraints: Constructing linked metrics’, OPHI Working Paper 145, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Conconi, A. and Alkire, S. (2025). ‘Além da renda: Uma abordagem multidimensional da pobreza e suas implicações para políticas públicas’, Cadernos de Estudos Índices 39, Ministério do Desenvolvimento e Assistência Social, Família e Combate à Fome, pp. 31–42.

Dirksen, J. and Alkire S. (2025) ‘Multidimensional poverty: Measurement, analysis, applications’, in K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature Meteor, pp. 1–42. 

Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2025). ‘Accessing inclusive well-being to leave no one behind’, OPHI Working Paper 147, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

2024

Scharlin-Pettee, S., Admasu, Y. and Alkire, S. (2024). ‘Multidimensional poverty, gender, and forced displacement: A multi-country, intrahousehold analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa’, The Journal of Development Studies, vol. 60, No. 12, pp. 1852–1878. Previously published in 2022 as OPHI Working Paper 139, and in 2021 as World Bank’s Policy Research Working Papers series (No. 9823).

Alkire, S. and Dirksen, J. (2024). ‘Poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions: A briefing on SDG indicator 1.2.2’, OPHI Briefing 58, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2024). ‘A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2024: Changes over time results for 86 countries’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 60, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2024). 'The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2024 country results and methodological note', OPHI MPI Methodological Note 58, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2024). 'The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2024 disaggregation results and methodological note', OPHI MPI Methodological Note 59, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Scharlin-Pettee, S., Admasu, Y. and Alkire, S. (2024). ‘Multidimensional poverty, gender, and forced displacement: A multi-country, intrahousehold analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa’, The Journal of Development Studies, vol. 60, No. 12, pp. 1852–1878.

2023

Alkire, S. and Richie, A. (2023) 'Winning ideas: Lessons from free-market economics for the economics of Francesco' in V. Rotondi and P. Santori (eds.) Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons: Towards an Economics of Francesco, ISBN 978-3-031-23324-1 (online), Springer, pp. 131–146.
Formerly published as OPHI Working Paper 06 in 2007.

Alkire, S. and Ul Haq, R. (2023). ‘Analyzing individual deprivations alongside household poverty: Possibilities for gendered, intrahousehold and multidimensional analyses’, OPHI Research in Progress No. 65a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2023). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2023 country results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 55, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2023). ‘A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2023 changes over time results for 84 countries’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 57, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. ©2018 University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2023). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2023 disaggregation results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 56, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Scheja, E. and Vollmer, F. (2023). ‘Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the Way Out of Poverty’, Social Indicators Research, 2023, Vol. 168, pp. 409–445.
An earlier version of this paper is published as OPHI Working Paper 143 in 2022.

Alkire, S., Nogales, R., Quinn, N.N. and Suppa, S. (2023). ‘On track or not? Projecting the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 165, paper No. 103150.
An earlier version of this paper was published in 2020 as OPHI Research in Progress paper No. 58a.

NSB and OPHI (2023). Bhutan Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022, National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan, Thimphu.

Ura, K., Alkire, S., Wangdi, K., and Zangmo, T. (2023). GNH 2022, Centre for Bhutan and GNH Studies, Thimpu.

2022

Admasu, Y., Alkire, S. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2022). ‘Multidimensional poverty, gender, and forced displacement: A multi-country, intrahousehold analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Working Paper 139, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as World Bank’s Policy Research Working Papers series (No. 9823).

Admasu, Y, Alkire, S, Ekhator-Mobayode, U.E., Kovesdi, F., Santamaria, J. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2022). ‘A multi-country analysis of multidimensional poverty in contexts of forced displacement’, OPHI Working Paper 140, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as World Bank’s Policy Research Working Papers series (No. 9826).

Alkire, S. and Fortacz, A. (2022). ‘Insights for policymaking from the Multidimensional Poverty Index’, in Waglé, S. and Wignaraja, K. (eds.), The Great Upheaval, Cambridge University Press, ch. 7, pp. 169–204.

Alkire, S. and Robson, M. (2022). ‘On International Household Survey Data Availability for Assessing pre-Pandemic Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty in Developing Countries’, Development Studies Research, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 277–295. Also available as an AAM.
An earlier version of this paper is published as OPHI Research in Progress No. 52a.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., Nogales, R. and Suppa, N. (2022). ‘Revising the global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical insights and robustness’, Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, Vol. 68(S2), pp. S347–S384.
An earlier version of this paper has been published as OPHI Research in Progress 56a.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2022). ‘A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2022 changes over time results for 84 countries’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 54, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2022). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2022 country results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 52, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2022). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2022 disaggregation results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 53, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Scheja, E. and Vollmer, F. (2022). ‘Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the way out of poverty’, OPHI Working Paper 143, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in the Social Indicators Research, 2023, Vol. 168, pp. 409–445.

Dirksen, J., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Wehrmeister, F.C., Ferreira, L.Z., Vidaletti, L.P., Kirkby, K., Swift Koller, T., Schlotheuber, A., Tapia, H., Vidal Fuertes, C., Alkire, S., Barros, J.D., Hosseinpoor, A.R. (2022). ‘Exploring the Potential for a New Measure of Socioeconomic Deprivation Status to Monitor Health Inequality’, International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022, Vol. 21, paper No. 56.
‘Correction’, published on 19 July 2022 in the International Journal for Equity in Health.

Dirksen, J., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Wehrmeister, F.C., Ferreira, L.Z., Vidaletti, L.P., Kirkby, K., Swift Koller, T., Schlotheuber, A., Tapia, H., Vidal Fuertes, C., Alkire, S., Barros, J.D., Hosseinpoor, A.R. (2022). ‘Exploring the Potential for a New Measure of Socioeconomic Deprivation Status to Monitor Health Inequality’, International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022, Vol. 21, paper No. 56.
‘Correction’, published in the International Journal for Equity in Health 2022, Vol. 21, paper No. 100 on 19 July 2022 in the International Journal for Equity in Health.

Mohaqeqi Kamal, S.H., Basakha, M. and Alkire, S. (2022). ‘Multidimensional poverty index: A multilevel analysis of deprivation among Iranian older adults’, Ageing and Society, 2024, Vol. 44(2), pp. 337–356.

Shen, Y. and Alkire, S. (2022). ‘Exploring China’s potential child poverty’, China and World Economy, 2022, Vol. 30(1), pp. 82–105.

Suppa, N., Alkire, S. and Nogales, R. (2022). ‘The many forms of poverty: Analyses of deprivation interlinkages in the developing world’, OPHI Research in Progress 63a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Ura, K., Fortacz, A., Alkire, S. and Wangdi, K. (2022). ‘Gross National Happiness’, in Kurtz, L.R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, Vol. 3, pp. 167–184. Elsevier, Academic Press.

Vollmer, F. and Alkire, S. (2022). ‘Consolidating and improving the assets indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, World Development, 2022, Vol. 158, paper No. 105997.

2021

Admasu, Y., Alkire, S. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2021). ‘Multidimensional poverty, gender, and forced displacement: A multi-country, intrahousehold analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa’, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9823.
Also published in 2022 as OPHI Working Paper 139.

Admasu, Y., Alkire, S., Ekhator-Mobayode, U.E., Kovesdi, F., Santamaria, J., and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2021). ‘A multi-country analysis of multidimensional poverty in contexts of forced displacement’, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9826.
Also published in 2022 as OPHI Working paper 140.

Alkire, S. and Apablaza, M., with Guio, A.-C. (2021). ‘Chronic multidimensional poverty in Europe’, in Guio, A.-C., Marlier, E., Nolan, B. (eds.) (2021). Improving the Understanding of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe, 2021 edition. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, ch. 16 (pp. 275–291).

Alkire, S. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2021). ‘Revisions of the global multidimensional poverty index: Indicator options and their empirical assessment’, Oxford Development Studies, 2022, Vol. 49(2), pp. 169–183.

Alkire, S. and Moreno, H. (2021). A Locally-disaggregated Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) for Bhutan, GNHC and UNICEF Bhutan Country Office.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2021). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2021’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note No. 51, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Vollmer, F. (2021). Interlinkages Between Multidimensional Poverty and Electricity: A Study Using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The Rockefeller Foundation, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). 

Alkire, S., Nogales, R., Quinn, N.N., and Suppa, N. (2021). ‘Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?’, Social Science and Medicine, 2021, Vol. 291, paper No. 114457.
Also published as OPHI Research in Progress 61a (2021).

Alkire, S., Nogales, R., Quinn, N.N. and Suppa, N. (2021). ‘Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?’, OPHI Research in Progress 61a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Also published in Social Science and Medicine, 2021, Vol. 291, paper No. 114457.

Alkire, S., Oldiges, C. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2021). ‘Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Insights and oversights of the headcount ratio’, World Development, 142, paper No. 105454.
Preliminary version of this paper was published in 2020 as OPHI Research in Progress 54b.

Dirksen, J. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Children and multidimensional poverty: Four measurement strategies’, Sustainability, 2021, Vol. 13(16), paper No. 9108.
Preliminary version of this paper was published as OPHI Working Paper 138.

Dirksen, J. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Children and multidimensional poverty: Four measurement strategies’, OPHI Working Paper 138, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Sustainability, 2021, Vol. 13(16), paper No. 9108.

Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Multidimensional poverty and inclusive growth in India: An analysis using growth elasticities and semi-elasticities’, Research on Economic Inequality, 2021, Vol. 29, pp. 105–137.
Preliminary version of this paper is published as OPHI Working Paper 137.

Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Multidimensional poverty and inclusive growth in India: An analysis using growth elasticities and semi-elasticities’, OPHI Working Paper 137, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Research on Economic Inequality, 2021, Vol. 29, pp. 105–137.

UNDP and OPHI (2021). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 – Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste and gender. United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.

2020

Alkire, S. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty measures as policy tool’, in Beck, V., Hahn, H. and Lepenies, R. (eds.), Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism, Springer, pp. 197–214.

Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2020). ‘A birdseye view of well-being: Exploring a multidimensional measure for the United Kingdom’, OPHI Research in Progress 60a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty across ethnic groups: Disaggre­gating the global MPI’, OPHI Briefing 55, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Oldiges, C. and Nogales, R. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty and the risk from COVID-19’, Dimensions No. 9, Multidimensional Peer Network (MPPN), pp. 7–10.

Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty and COVID-19 risk factors: A rapid overview of interlinked deprivations across 5.7 billion people’, OPHI Briefing 53, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty and COVID-19 risk factors: A rapid overview of interlinked deprivations across 5.8 billion people’, OPHI Briefing 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty and vulnerability to COVID-19: A rapid overview of disaggregated and interlinked vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19: A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Pauvreté multidimensionnelle et vulnérabilité à la COVID-19: Bref aperçu des vulnérabilités désagrégées et interconnectées en Afrique subsaharienne’, OPHI Briefing 54 in French (available to download from this page), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., Nogales, R. and Suppa, N. (2020). ‘Revising the global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical insight and robustness’, OPHI Research in Progress 56a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68: S347-S384.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2020). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 49, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), 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 (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., F. Kovesdi, Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (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., Scheja, E. and Vollmer, F. (2020). ‘Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the way out of poverty’, OPHI Research in Progress 59a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Nogales, R., Quinn, N. N., and Suppa, N. (2020). ‘On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index,’ OPHI Research in Progress 58a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Oldiges, C. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Still a long way to go but the poorest are catching up’, OPHI Research in Progress 54b, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Research on Progress 54a (2018).

Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Alkire, S. (2020). ‘How poor are people with disabilities? Evidence based on the global Multidimensional Poverty index’, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2020, Vol. 31(4), pp. 206–216.
Earlier version of this paper is published as OPHI Research in Progress No. 48a (2017).

UNDP and OPHI (2020). Global Multidimensional Poverty index 2020 – Charting Pathways out of Multidimensional Poverty: Achieving the SDGs. Report. Unite Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. 

Vollmer, F. and Alkire, S. (2020). ‘Towards a global asset indicator: Re-assessing the asset indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI Research in Progress 53b, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Supplementary data for RP53b (xlsx)
A later version of this paper has been published as ‘Consolidating and improving the assets indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, World Development, October 2022, Vol. 158, paper No. 105997.

2019

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2019). ‘The role of inequality in poverty measurement’, OPHI Working Paper 126, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2019). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2019’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 47, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Mitchell, C., Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2019). ‘Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index: A ten-country study’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 48, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Ul Haq, R. and Alim, A. (2019). ‘The state of multidimensional child poverty in South Asia: a contextual and gendered view’, OPHI Working Paper 127, University of Oxford.

Shen, Y., Alkire, S., Zhan, P. (2019). ‘Measurement and decomposition of multi-dimensional poverty in China’, China Economist, 2019, Vol. 3, pp. 12–28. [No PDF in OPHI archive, password needed]

Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A., and Sraboni, E. (2019). ‘Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh’, OPHI Working Paper 125, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 2018, Vol. 25(2), pp. 21–51. 

Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A., and Sraboni, E. (2019). ‘Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh’, Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 2018, Vol. 25(2), pp. 21–51. 
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 125 (2019).

2018

Alkire, S. (2018). ‘Multidimensional poverty measures as relevant policy tools’, OPHI Working Paper 118, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A version of this paper is published in Beck, V., Hahn, H. and Lepenies, R. (eds.), 2020, Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism, Springer, pp. 197–214.

Alkire, S. (2018). ‘The research agenda on multidimensional poverty measurement: Important and as-yet unanswered questions’, OPHI Working Paper 119, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Fang, Y. (2019). ‘Dynamics of multidimensional poverty and uni‐dimensional income poverty: An evidence of stability analysis from China’, Social Indicators Research, 2019, Vol. 142, pp. 25–64.

Alkire, S. and Jahan, S. (2018). ‘The new global MPI 2018: Aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals’, OPHI Working Paper 121, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Jahan, S. (2018). ‘The new Global MPI 2018: Aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals’, 2018 UNDP Human Development Report Office (HDRO) Occasional Paper, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).  

Alkire, S. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2018). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Winter 2017-18: brief methodological note and results’. OPHI MPI Methodological Notes No. 45, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robson, M. (2018). ‘On data availability for assessing monetary and multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Research in Progress 52a, University of Oxford.
A later version of this paper is published in Development Studies Research, 2022, Vol. 9(1), pp. 277–295.

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2018). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2018 revision’, OPHI MPI Methodological Notes 46, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Oldiges, C. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2018). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Still a long way to go but the poorest are catching up’, OPHI Research in Progress 54a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Later version of this paper: OPHI Research in Progress 54b.

Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Alkire, S. (2018). ‘Statistical note: Disaggregating Bhutan’s MPI 2017 by disability status’, OPHI Research in Progress 51a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Samuel, K., Alkire, S., Zavaleta, D., Mills, C. and Hammock, J. (2018). ‘Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty’, Oxford Development Studies, 2018, Vol. 46(1), pp. 83–97.
Former OPHI Working Paper 80 (2014).

Thiry, G., Alkire, S. and Schleicher, J. (2018). ‘Incorporating environmental and natural resources within analyses of multidimensional poverty’. OPHI Research in Progress 50a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A. and Sraboni, E. (2018). ‘Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh’, Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 2018, Vol. 25(2), pp. 25–51. 
Former OPHI Working Paper 125.

Vollmer, F. and Alkire, S. (2018). ‘Towards a global asset indicator: Re-assessing the asset indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI Research in Progress 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
A later version is published in the World Development, 2022, Vol. 158, paper No. 105997.

2017

Alkire, S. and Apablaza, M. (2017). ‘Multidimensional poverty in Europe 2006–2012: Illustrating a methodology’, in Atkinson, A., Guio, A.-C. and Marlier, E. (eds.), Monitoring Social Inclusion in Europe. 2017 edition. Eurostat, ch. 12 (pp. 225–240). 
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 74 (2016).

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2017). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017’, OPHI Briefing 47, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2017). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017’ (2-page briefing), OPHI Briefing 48, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2017). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Summer 2017: Brief methodological note and results.’ MPI Methodological Notes 44, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford

Alkire, S. and Shen, Y. (2017). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty in China: 2010 to 2014’, OPHI Research in Progress 47a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare (ed. by J. Bishop), 2017, Vol. 2, pp. 161–228.

Alkire, S. and Shen, Y. (2017). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty in China: 2010 to 2014’, Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare (ed. by J. Bishop), 2017, Vol. 25, pp. 161–228.
See also OPHI Research in Progress 47a (2017).

Alkire, S., Apablaza, M., Chakravarty, S. and Yalonetzky, G. (2017). ‘Measuring chronic multidimensional poverty’, Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, Vol. 39(6), pp. 983–1006.
Former OPHI Working Paper 75 (2014).

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles, G., and Vaz, A. (2017). ‘Children’s multidimensional poverty: Disaggregating the global MPI’, OPHI Briefing 46, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles Aguilar, G., and Vaz, A. (2017). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Forum for Social Economics, 2017, Vol. 46(2), pp. 178–191. [No PDF]
Former OPHI Working Paper 112 (2017).

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles-Aguilar, G., and Vaz, A. (2017). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.’ OPHI Working Paper 112, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published online in Forum for Social Economics, 2017, Vol. 46(2), pp. 178–191.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Vaz, A. (2017). ‘Changes over time in multidimensional poverty: Methodology and results for 34 countries’, World Development, 2017, Vol. 94, 232–249.
Former OPHI Working Paper 76 (2015).

Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Alkire, S. (2017). ‘How poor are people with disabilities around the globe? A multidimensional perspective.’ OPHI Research in Progress 48a, University of Oxford.
A later version of the paper is published in Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2020, Vol. 31(4), pp. 206–216.

Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2017). ‘Did poverty reduction reach the poorest of the poor? Complementary measures of poverty and inequality in the counting approach’, Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare (ed. by S. Bandyopadhyay), 2017, Vol. 25, pp. 63–102.
Former OPHI Working Paper 77 (2014).

2016

Alkire, S. (2016). ‘The capability approach and well-being measurement for public policy’, in M. D. Adler and M. Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, pp. 615–644.
See also OPHI WP 94 (2015).

Alkire, S. (2016). ‘Measures of human development: Key concepts and properties’, OPHI Working Paper 107, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2016). ‘Towards frequent and accurate poverty data', OPHI Research in Progress 43c and Data file, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Research in Progress 43a (2014) and OPHI Research in Progress 43b (2014)

Alkire, S. and Apablaza, M. (2016). 'Multidimensional poverty in Europe 2006–2012: Illustrating a methodology’, OPHI Working Paper 74, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Updated version of the paper, ‘Chronic multidimensional poverty in Europe’ by S. Alkire and M. Apablaza, with A.-C. Guio, is published in Guio, A.-C., Marlier, E., Nolan, B. (eds.) (2021), Improving the Understanding of Povery and Social Exclusion in Europe, 2021 edition. PublicationsOffice of the European Union, Luxembourg, ch. 16 (pp. 275–291).

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2016). ‘Dimensional and distributional contributions to multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Working Paper 100, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2016). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2016’, OPHI Briefing 41, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2016). ‘Measuring multidimensional poverty: Dashboards, Union identification, and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)’, OPHI Research in Progress 46a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2016). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Winter 2016: Brief methodological note and results’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 43, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2016). ‘Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor: An ordinal approach’, OPHI Working Paper 99, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Robles, G., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2016). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 5-year methodological note’, OPHI Briefing 38, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Dorji, L, Gyeltshen, S, and Minten, T. (2016). Child Poverty in Bhutan: Insights from Multidimensional Child Poverty Index and Qualitative Interviews with Poor Children. National Statistics Bureau, Monograph Series 9, Bhutan.

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles, G. et Vaz, A. (2016). ‘Pauvreté multidimensionnelle en Afrique’, OPHI Briefing 43, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. (A translation of the OPHI Briefing 40).

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles, G. and Vaz, A. (2016). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Summer 2016: Brief methodological note and results’, OPHI Briefing 42 (OPHI MPI Methodological Note 42), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles, G., and Vaz, A. (2016). ‘Multidimensional poverty in Africa’, OPHI Briefing 40, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alpay, S., Alkire, S., Hammock, J., Bello, A., Robles Aguilar, and Housseini, B. (2016). Multidimensional Poverty Assessment in IDB Sub-Saharan African Member Countries. Report. Economic Research and Policy Department, Islamic Development Bank, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Vaz, A., Pratley, P., and Alkire, S. (2015). ‘Measuring women’s autonomy in Chad using the Relative Autonomy Index’, Feminist Economics, 2016, Vol. 22(1), pp. 264–294.
Previously published as OPHI Research in Progress No. 44a.

Wang, X., Feng, H., Xia, Q. and Alkire, S. (2016). ‘On the relationship between income poverty and multidimensional poverty in China’, OPHI Working Paper 101, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

2015

Alkire, S. (2015). ‘Capability approach and well-being measurement for public policy’, OPHI Working Papers 94, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in M.D. Adler and M. Fleurbaey (eds.) 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, ch. 21.

Alkire, S. (2015). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)’, DRAFT.

Alkire, S. (2015). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, The Pakistan Development Review, 2015, Vol. 54(4) part 1, pp. 287–299.

Alkire, S. (2015). ‘Measures of Human Development: Key Concepts and Properties', Paper for UNDP Latin America and Caribbean. Manuscript, unpublished.
Published in 2016 as OPHI Working Paper 107.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). ‘High visibility: How disaggregated metrics help to reduce multidimensional poverty', OPHI Briefing 28, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). ‘Multidimensional Poverty index – 2015: Brief methodological note and results’, OPHI Briefing 31 (OPHI MPI Methodological Note 31), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). ‘Multidimensional Poverty index – Winter 2015/16: Brief methodological note and results’, OPHI Briefing 36, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). ‘Poverty maps: Mapping multidimensional poverty so policies can fight it efficiently’, OPHI Briefing 37, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2015). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and how?’, World Development, 2015, Vol. 72, pp. 93–108.
An earlier version is published as OPHI Working Papers 60 (2013), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Shen, Y. (2015). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty in China, OPHI Briefing 34, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Robles, G., and Vaz, A. (2015). ‘Destitution: Who and where are the poorest of the poor?’, OPHI Briefing 35, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Robles, G., and Seth, S. (2015). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Winter 2014/2015: Brief methodological note’, OPHI Briefing 27 (OPHI MPI Methodological Note 27), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford University Press.

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 2 – Framework (OPHI Working Paper 83).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 3 – Methods (OPHI Working Paper 84).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 4 – Counting Approaches (OPHI Working Paper 85).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 5 – AF Methodology (OPHI Working Paper 86).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 6 – Normative Choices (OPHI Working Paper 87).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 7 – Data and Analysis (OPHI Working Paper 88).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 8 – Robustness (OPHI Working Paper 89).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 9 – Distribution and Dynamics (OPHI Working Paper 90).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 10 – Regression Models (OPHI Working Paper 91).

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., and Robles Aguilar, G. (2015). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015 – 2-page briefing’, OPHI Briefing 32, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles, G., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2015). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015 – 8-page briefing’, OPHI Briefing 33, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Vaz, A. (2015). ‘Changes over time in multidimensional poverty: Methodology and results for 34 countries.” OPHI Working Paper 76, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in World Development, 2017, Vol. 94, pp. 232–249.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Seth, S., and Sumner, A. (2015). ‘Identifying the poorest people and groups: Strategies using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, Journal of International Development, 2015, Vol. 27(3), pp. 362–387.
Previously published as OPHI Working Paper 78 (2014).

Tran, V. Q., Alkire, S., and Klasen S. (2015). ‘Static and dynamic disparities between monetary and multidimensional poverty measurement: Evidence from Vietnam’, OPHI Working Paper 97, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, Vol. 23, pp. 249–281.

Tran, V. Q., Alkire, S., and Klasen S. (2015). ‘Static and dynamic disparities between monetary and multidimensional poverty measurement: Evidence from Vietnam’, Research on Economic Inequality: Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility, 2015, Vol. 23, pp. 249–281. 
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 97 (2015).

Vaz, A., Pratley, P., and Alkire, S. (2015). ‘Measuring women’s autonomy in Chad and its associations with breastfeeding practices using the Relative Autonomy Index’, OPHI Research in Progress 44a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Feminist Economics, 2016, Vol. 22(1), pp. 264­–294.

2014

Alkire, S. (2014). 'Towards Frequent and Accurate Poverty Data', OPHI Research in Progress 43a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Research in Progress 43b and OPHI Research in Progress 43c.

Alkire, S. (2014). 'Towards frequent and accurate poverty data', OPHI Research in Progress 43b, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), Oxford University.
Download supplementary data - Questionnaire (pdf) 
Download Supplementary Data - Survey Modules (pdf)
See also Research in Progress 43a and Research in Progress 43c.

Alkire, S. and Housseini, B. (2014). ‘Multidimensional poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Levels and trends’, OPHI Working Papers 81, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in M. Nissanke and M. Ndulo (eds.), 2017, Poverty Reduction in the Course of African Development, Oxford Unviversity Press, ch. 5.

Alkire, S. and Samman, E. (2014). ‘Mobilising the household data required to progress toward the SDGs’, OPHI Working Papers 72, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Briefing Paper, September 2014.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2014). ‘Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: Robustness and scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index’, World Development, 2014, Vol. 59, pp. 251–274.
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 59 (2013).

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2014). ‘Inequality among the MPI poor, and regional disparity in multidimensional poverty: Levels and trends’, OPHI Briefing 25, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Vaz, A. (2014). ‘Reducing multidimensional poverty and destitution: Pace and patterns’, OPHI Briefing 23, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Apablaza, M. and Jung, E. (2014). 'Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries', OPHI Research in Progress 36b, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Later version of this paper: OPHI Research in Progress 36c (2014).

Alkire, S., Apablaza, M. and Jung, E. (2014). 'Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries', OPHI Research in Progress 36c, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), Oxford University.
Earlier version of this paper: OPHI Research in Progress 36b (2014).

Alkire, S., Apablaza, M., Chakravarty, S. R., and Yalonetzky, G. (2014). ‘Measuring chronic multidimensional poverty: A counting approach”. OPHI Working Papers 75, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, Vol. 39(6), pp. 983–1006.

Alkire, S., Chatterjee, M., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014’, OPHI Briefing 21 Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Chatterjee, M., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). ‘Destitution: Who and where are the poorest of the poor?', OPHI Briefing 22, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Chatterjee, M., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). ‘Poverty in rural and urban areas’, OPHI Briefing 24, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A. and Seth, S. (2014). ‘Measuring destitution in developing countries: An ordinal approach for identifying linked subset of multidimensionally poor’, OPHI Research in Progress 42a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014 – At a glance overview’, OPHI Briefing 20, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014: Brief methodological note and results’, OPHI Briefing 19, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This paper counts also as OPHI MPI Methodological Note No. 19.

Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 1 – Introduction (OPHI Working Papers 82, 2014).

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Seth, S., and Sumner, A. (2014). ‘Identifying the poorest people and groups: Strategies using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index', OPHI Working Papers 78, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of International Development, 2015, Vol. 27, pp. 362–387.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Vaz, A. (2014). 'Multidimensional poverty dynamics: Methodology and results for 34 countries', OPHI Research in Progress Paper 41a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Samuel, K., Alkire, S., Hammock, J., Mills, C., and Zavaleta, D. (2014). ‘Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Working Papers 80, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 2018, Vol. 46(1), pp. 83–97.

Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2014). ‘Did poverty reduction reach the poorest of the poor? Assessment methods in the counting approach’, OPHI Working Papers 77, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Updated version is published in Research on Economic Inequality, 2017, Vol. 25, pp. 63–102.

Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2014). ‘Measuring and decomposing inequality among the multidimensionally poor using ordinal data: A counting approach’, OPHI Working Paper 68, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
An updated version of this paper is published in Research on Economic Inequality, 2017, Vol. 25, pp. 63–102.
See also OPHI Working Paper 77 (2014).

2013 

Alkire, S. (2013). ‘Well-being, happiness, and public policy’, Background Paper for the International Expert Working Group (IEWG) for a New Development Paradigm. Discussion Paper, Department of International Development, Government of the United Kingdom.
Also published as OPHI Research in Progress No. 37a (2013).

Alkire, S. (2013). 'Well-being, happiness, and public policy', OPHI Research in Progress 37a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as ‘Well-being, happiness, and public policy’, Background Paper for the International Expert Working Group (IEWG) for a New Development Paradigm. Discussion Paper, Department of International Development, Government of the United Kingdom.

Alkire, S. and Roche, J. M. (2013). ‘How multidimensional poverty went down: Dynamics and comparisons’, OPHI Briefing 16, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2013). ‘A multidimensional approach: Poverty measurement and beyond’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 239–257.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2013). ‘Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: Robustness and scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI Working Papers 59, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. Supplementary data. 
Also published in World Development, 2014, Vol. 59, pp. 251–274.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Identifying BPL households: A comparison of methods’, Economic and Political Weekly, 2013, Vol. 48(2), pp. 49–57.
See also OPHI Working Paper 54 (2012).

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Debate over poverty line and recent poverty figures in India’, Indian Express.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction in India 1999-2006: Slower progress for the poorest groups’, OPHI Briefing 15, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Working Paper 60 (2013), and World Development, 2015, Vol. 72, pp. 93–108.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and how?' OPHI Working Paper 60, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in World Development, 2015, Vol. 72, pp. 93–108.
See also OPHI Briefing 15 (2013).

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Selecting a targeting method to identify BPL households in India’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 417–446.
See also OPHI Working Paper 53 (2012) and OPHI Working Paper 54 (2012).

Alkire, S. and Sumner, A. (2013). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and the Post-2015 MDGs’, OPHI Briefing 11, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Development, 2013, Vol. 56(1), pp. 46–51.

Alkire, S. and Sumner, A. (2013). ‘Multidimensional poverty and the Post-2015 MDGs’,  Development, 2013, Vol. 56(1), pp. 46–51.
See also OPHI Briefing 11 (2013).

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., and Roche, J. M. (2013). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013: Brief methodological note and results’, OPHI Briefing 12, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This Briefing also counts as OPHI MPI Methodological Note No. 12.

Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., et al. (2013). ‘The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index’, World Development, 2013, Vol. 52, pp. 71-91.
See also OPHI Working Paper 58 (2013), and OPHI Research in Progress 35a (2012).

Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., et al. (2013). ‘The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index’, OPHI Working Papers 58, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also World Development, 2013, Vol. 52, pp. 71–91, and OPHI Research in Progress 35a (2012).

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Identifying the ‘Bottom Billion’: Beyond national averages’, OPHI Briefing 14, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Research in Progress 39a (2013), and OPHI Working Paper 61 (2013).

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M. and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013’, OPHI Briefing 13, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M. and Sumner, A. (2013). ‘Where do the world’s multidimensionally poor people live?’, OPHI Working Paper 61, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Research In Progress 39a (2013).

Alkire, S., Roche, J.M., Seth, S. and Sumner, A. (2013). 'A multidimensional approach to the Bottom Billion', OPHI Research in Progress 39a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Briefing 14 (2013).

Samman, E. (ed.) (2013). ‘Eradicating global poverty: A noble goal, but how do we measure it?’, – with contributions from M. Ravallion, L. Pritchett, S. Klasen, S. Alkire, A. Lenhardt, and E. Letouzé, Development Progress – Working Paper 02.

Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A. and Sraboni, E. (2013). 'Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh', OPHI Research in Progress 38a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

2012

Alkire, S. and Robles Aguilar, G. (2012). ‘Least developed countries and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)’, OPHI Briefing 10, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Roche, J. M. (2012). ‘Beyond headcount: Measures that reflect the breadth and components of child poverty’, in A. Minujin and S. Nandy (eds.), Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action, The Policy Press, ch. 5.
See also OPHI Working Paper 45 (2011).

Alkire, S. and Roche, J. M. (2012). ‘Beyond headcount: The Alkire-Foster approach to multidimensional child poverty measurement’, in I. Ortiz, L. M. Daniels and S. Engilbertsdóttir (eds.), Child Poverty and Inequality: New Perspectives, UNICEF, Division of Policy and Practice, New York, 2012, pp. 18–22. 
Also published in A. Minujin and S. Nandy (eds.), Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action, Bristol, The Policy Press, 2012, pp. 103–134.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2012). ‘Identifying BPL households: A comparison of methods’, OPHI Working Papers 54, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in Economic and Political Weekly, 2013, Vol. 48(2), pp. 49–57.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2012). ‘Selecting a targeting method to identify BPL households in India’, OPHI Working Papers 53, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 417–446.

Alkire, S., Apablaza, M. and Jung, E. (2012). 'Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) countries', OPHI Research in Progress 36a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Later versions of this paper: OPHI Research in Progress 36b and OPHI Research in Progress 36c.

Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., Quisumbing, A., Seymour, G. and Vaz, A. (2012). 'The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index', OPHI Research in Progress 35a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also  World Development, 2013, Vol. 52, pp. 71-91, and OPHI Working Paper 58 (2013).

Ura, K., Alkire, S., Zangmo, T. and Wangdi, K. (2012). An Extensive Analysis of GNH Index, Centre of Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan.

Ura, K., Alkire, S. and Zangmo, T. (2012). ‘Case study: Bhutan gross national happiness and the GNH index’, in: J. Helliwell, R. Layard, and J. Sachs (eds.), World Happiness Report, pp.  108-147. New York: Colombia University.

Ura, K., Alkire, S. and Zangmo, T. (2012). GNH and GNH Index: A Short Guide to Gross National Happiness Index, The Centre of Bhutan Studies, Thimphu.

2011

Aglietta, M., Alkire, S., Bourguignon, F., Clark, A.E., Deatoin, A. and Senik, C. (2011). Measure for Measure: How well do we measure development? Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference, 2010. Conférences & Séminares 03, Agence Française Développement (AFD).

Alkire, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional poverty and its discontents’. OPHI Working Paper 46, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Aglietta, A., et. Al. 2012, ch. 2.

Alkire, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional poverty and its discontents’, in Aglietta, A., Alkire, S., Bourguignon, F., Clark, A. E., Deaton, A. and Senik, C. (eds.), Measure for Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development?, Conférences et Séminaires 03, Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference. Paris, December 1st, 2010. Agence française de développement, 2011, ch. 2.

Alkire, S. (2011/2012). ‘Mesurer la pauvreté multidimensionelle: Les limites’, Revue d’économie du développement, 2011/2012, Vol. 19, pp. 61­–104.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). ‘Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement’, Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.
See also OPHI Working Paper 32 (2009) and OPHI Working Paper 07 (2008).

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). ‘Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement’, OPHI Working Paper 43, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, Vol. 9(2), pp. 289–314.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). ‘Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, Vol. 9(2), pp. 289–314.
See also OPHI Working Paper 43 (2011).

Alkire, S. and Roche, J.M. (2011). ‘Beyond headcount: Measures that reflect the breadth and components of child poverty’, OPHI Working Paper 45, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in A. Minujin and S. Nandy (eds.), Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action, Bristol: The Policy Press, 2012, pp. 103–134.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M.E. (2011). 'Training Material for Producing National Human Development Reports – Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)', OPHI Research in Progress 31a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Foster, J. and Santos, M.E. (2011). ‘Where Did Identification Go?’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, Vol. 9(3), pp. 501-505.
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 43b (2011).

Alkire, S., Foster, J. and Santos, M.E. (2011). ‘Where Did Identification Go?’ OPHI Working Paper 43b, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
Also published in Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, Vol. 9(3), pp. 501-505.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., and Seth, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011: Brief methodological note’, OPHI Briefing 05, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This briefing counts also as OPHI MPI Methodological Note 5.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., and Seth, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011 (2-page briefing)’, OPHI Briefing 06, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., and Seth, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011’, OPHI Briefing 07, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Roche, J.M. and Seth, S. (2011). 'Sub-national disparities and inter-temporal evolution of multidimensional poverty across developing countries', OPHI Research in Progress 32a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Seth, S., Yalonetzky, G. and Zavaleta, D. (2011). 'Training material for producing the National Human Development Reports – Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)', OPHI Research in Progress 30a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). University of Oxford.

2010

Alkire, S. (2010). ‘Human development: Definitions, critiques, and related concepts’, Human Development Research Paper 2010/01, UNDP.
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 36 (2010).

Alkire, S. (2010). ‘Human development: Definitions, critiques, and related concepts’, OPHI Working Paper 36, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also in Human Development Research Paper 2010/01, UNDP.

Alkire, S. (2010). ‘Instrumental freedoms and human capabilities’, in: S. L. Esquith and F. Gifford (eds.) Capabilities, Power, and Institutions, 2010, The Pennsylvanian State University Press, ch. 1.

Alkire, S. (2010). 'Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents', OPHI Research in Progress 23a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2010). ‘The Multidimensional Poverty Index and the Millennium Development Goals: Showing interconnections’, OPHI Briefing 04, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2010). ‘Using the capability approach: Prospective and evaluative analyses’, in F. Comim, M. Qizilbash, and S. Alkire (eds.), 2010, The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521154529, ch. 1.

Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2010). ‘A normative framework for development’, in S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency, 2010, Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 1.

Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2010). ‘The human development and capability approach’, in S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency, 2010, Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 2.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2010). ‘Designing the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI)’, Human Development Research Paper 2010/28, UNDP. 
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 37, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2010). 'Designing the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI)', OPHI Working Paper 37, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as Human Development Research Paper 2010/28.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M.E. (2010). ‘Acute multidimensional poverty: A new Index for developing countries’, OPHI Working Paper 38, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A later version of this paper is published in the World Development, vol. 59, July 2014, pp.  251–274, 
and as an UNDP Human Development Research Paper 2010/11.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M.E. (2010). ‘Acute multidimensional poverty: A new Index for developing countries’, UNDP Human Development Research Paper 2010/11.
See also OPHI Working Paper 38 (2010) and World Development, vol. 59, July 2014, pp. 251–274.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2010). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2010‘, OPHI Briefing 01, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This briefing counts also as Global MPI Report No. 1 (2010).

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2010). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2010 (2-page version)’, OPHI Briefing 02, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2010). ‘Poverty and inequality measurement’, in S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency, 2010, Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 6.

Alkire, S., Qizilbash, M., and Comim, F. (2010). ‘Introduction’, in F. Comim, M. Qizilbash, and S. Alkire (eds.), The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications, 2010, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521154529, pp. 1–24.

Alkire, S., Santos, M. E., Seth, S., and Yalonetzky, G. (2010). ‘Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights?’, OPHI Briefing 03, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Akire, S., Santos, M.E. and Yalonetzky, G. (2010). 'Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights?', OPHI Research in Progress 22a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

2009

Alkire, S. (2009). 'Amartya Sen’, in J. Peil and Irene van Staversen (eds.), Handbook of Economics and Ethics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, ch. 63, pp. 484–492.
See also OPHI Research in Progress 3a (2008).

Alkire, S. (2009). 'Conceptual overview of human development: Definitions, critiques, and related concepts', OPHI Research in Progress 15a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2009). ‘Development: ‘A misconceived theory can kill’’, in: C.W. Morris (ed.), Amartya Sen: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 191-120. 
Also published in 2008 as OPHI Working Paper 11 (2008).

Alkire, S. (2009). ‘The capability approach as a development paradigm?’, in E. Chiappero-Martinetti (ed.), Debating Global Society Reach and Limits of the Capability Approach, SIPIEL, Milan, pp. 31–60.

Alkire, S. (2009). 中国多维贫困测量:估计和政策含义. 2009.12.

Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2009). ‘A normative framework for development’, in S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), 2009, An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency, Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 1.

Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2009). ‘A normative framework for development’, in S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency, Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 2.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). 'An axiomatic approach to identification and measurement of multidimensional poverty', OPHI Research in Progress 21a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). ‘Counting and multidimensional poverty’, in J. von Braun, R. Vargas Hill, and R. Pandya-Lorch (eds.), The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, and Actions, 2009, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., ch. 3.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). ‘Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement (revised and updated)’, OPHI Working Papers 32, University of Oxford. 
Also published in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (revised in 2009). ‘Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement (abridged version)’, OPHI Working Paper 07 (short version), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Working Paper 32 (2009) and OPHI Research in Progress 1a.
Also published in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.

Alkire, S. with Foster, J. (2009). 'The MDGs: Multidimensionality and interconnection', OPHI Research in Progress 8a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2009). ‘Poverty and inequality measurement’, in S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency, Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 6.

Alkire, S. and Sarwar, M.B. (2009). 'Multidimensional measures of poverty and well-being', OPHI Research in Progress 6a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2009). 'Determining BPL status: Some methodological improvements', OPHI Research in Progress 7a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This paper is also published in the Indian Journal of Human Development (IJHD), 2008, Vol. 2.2, pp. 407–424.

Alkire, S., Bastagli F., Burchardt T., Clark D., Holder H., Ibrahim S., Munoz M., Terrazas P., Tsang T., and Vizard P. (2009). ‘Developing the equality measurement framework: Selecting the Indicators’, EHRC Research Report 31, Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Alkire, S. and Xiaolin Wang. (2009). ‘Measurement of multidimensional poverty in China: Estimation and Policy Implications’, Chinese Rural Economy, 2009, Vol. 12(4), pp. 4–10.

2008

Alkire, S. (2008). 'Amartya Sen', OPHI Research in Progress 3a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2008). 'Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index: Methodology and Results', OPHI Research in Progress No. 5a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2008). ‘Choosing dimensions: The capability approach and multidimensional poverty’, in N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), (2008, reprinted in 2013), The Many Dimensions of Poverty, Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, e-ISBN 978-0-230-59240-7, ch. 6.
See also CPRC Working Paper 88 (2007).

Alkire, S. (2008). ‘Concepts and measures of agency’, OPHI Working Paper 09, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
K. Basu and R. Kanbur, 2008, Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Part IV: Identity, Collective Action and Public Economics, Oxford University Press, ch. 24, ISBN 9780199239115.

Alkire, S. (2008). ‘Concepts and measures of agency’, in K. Basu and R. Kanbur (eds.),  Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Part IV: Identity, Collective Action and Public Economics, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199239115, 24.
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 09 (2008).

Alkire, S. (2008). ‘Development: A misconceived theory can kill’, OPHI Working Paper 11, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in C. W. Morris (ed.), 2009, Amartya Sen: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, Cambridge University Press, pp. 191–220, ISBN 9780521618069.

Alkire, S. (2008). 'The capability approach to the quality of life', OPHI Research in Progress 2a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). ‘Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement’, OPHI Working Paper 07, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Spanish version: Recuento y Medición Multidimensional de la Pobreza.
See also an abridged version of this paper from 2009, OPHI Working Paper 32 (2009) and OPHI Research in Progress 1a.
Also published in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). ‘Recuento y medición multidimensional de la pobreza’, OPHI Working Papers 07 (Spanish), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Working Paper 07 (rev. 2008), and Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2008). ‘Determining BPL status: Some methodological improvements’, Indian Journal of Human Development (IJHD), 2008, Vol. 2(2), pp. 407­–424.
See also OPHI Research in Progress 7a (2009).

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2008). ‘Measuring multidimensional poverty in India: A new proposal’, OPHI Working Paper 15, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A later version of this paper is published as OPHI Working Paper 53, and in Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 122(2), pp. 417–446.

Alkire, S., Qizilbash, M., and Comim, F. (2010). ‘Introduction’, in F. Comim, M. Qizilbash, and S. Alkire (eds.), The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications, 2010, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521154529, pp. 1–24.

Alkire, S., Santos, M.E. and Ura, K. (2008). 'Gross national happiness and poverty in Bhutan: Applying the GNH Index methodology to explore poverty', OPHI Research in Progress 4a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

2007

Alkire, S. (2007). ‘Choosing dimensions: The capability approach and multidimensional poverty’, CPRC Working Paper 88, Chronic Poverty Research Centre.
Also published in N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), (2008, reprinted in 2013), The Many Dimensions of Poverty, Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, e-ISBN 978-0-230-59240-7, ch. 6.

Alkire, S. (2007). ‘Measuring agency: Issues and possibilities’, Indian Journal of Human Development, 2007, Vol. 1(1), pp. 163–169.

Alkire, S. (2007). ‘Measuring freedoms alongside wellbeing’, in I. Gough and J. A. McGregor (eds.), Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research, 2007, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521857512, ch. 4.

Alkire, S. (2007). ‘The missing dimensions of poverty data: Introduction to the special issue’, Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 347–359. 
Also published as OPHI Working Papers 00, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. (2007). 'The missing dimensions: An introduction', OPHI Working Paper 00, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 347–359.
Spanish version 'Las dimensiones faltantes en la medición de la pobreza', (p. 19–33), CAF - Banco de Desarrollo de America Latina.
Also available in Mandarin.

Alkire, S. and Chen., L. (2007). ‘Education and public health’, in Human Security in the 21st Century, Tokai University Press.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007). 'Counting and Multidimensional Poverty', OPHI Research in Progress 1a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Working Paper 32 (2009) and OPHI Working Paper 07 (2008).
A later version of this paper is also published in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). ‘Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement’, OPHI Working Paper 07, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.
See also an abridged version of this paper from 2009, OPHI Working Paper 32 (2009) and OPHI Research in Progress 1a (2007).

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007). 'Counting and Multidimensional Poverty', OPHI Research in Progress 1a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Working Paper 32 (2009) and OPHI Working Paper 07 (2008).
A later version of this paper is also published in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). ‘Recuento y medición multidimensional de la pobreza’, a Spanish version of the OPHI Working Paper 07, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Ritchie, A. (2007). ‘Winning ideas: Lessons from free-market economics’, OPHI Working Paper 06, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Ibrahim, S. and Alkire, S. (2007). ‘Agency and empowerment: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators’, OPHI Working Paper 04, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 379–403.

Ibrahim, S. and Alkire, S. (2007). ‘Agency and empowerment: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators’, Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 379–403.
See also OPHI Working Paper 04 (2007).

Pillai, N. V. and Alkire, S. (2007). 'Measuring individual agency or empowerment: A study in Kerala', MPRA Paper 9289.

2006

Alkire, S. (2006). ‘Public debate and value construction in Sen’s approach’, in A. Kaufman (ed.), 2006, Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems, London: Routledge, ch. 7.

Alkire, S. (2006). ‘Religion and development’, in D. A. Clark (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 502­–510.

Alkire, S. (2006). ‘Structural injustice and democratic practice: The trajectory in Sen’s writings’, in S. Deneulin, M. Nebel, and N. Sagovsky (eds.), Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach, Dordrecht: Springer, ch. 3.

Alkire, S. and Chen, L. (2006). ‘Medical exceptionalism in international migration: Should doctors and nurses be treated differently?’, in K. Tamas and J. Palme (eds.), Globalizing Migration Regimes: New Challenges to Transnational Cooperation, Aldershot: Ashgate, ch. 7.

2005

Alkire, S. (2005). ‘Needs and capabilities’, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2005, Vol. 57, pp. 229–252.

Alkire, S. (225). ‘Subjective quantitative studies of human agency’, Social Indicators Research, 2005, Vol. 74(1), pp. 217–260.

Alkire, S. (2005). Valuing Freedoms: Sen’s Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199283316 (first paperback edition. First published as hardback in 2002).

Alkire, S. (2005). ‘Why the capability approach?’, Journal of Human Development, 2005, Vol. 6(1), pp. 115–135.

Alkire, S. and Barham, A. (2005). ‘Supporting the MDGs: A faith-based movement’s story’, Development, 2005, Vol. 48(1), pp. 122­–125.

Alkire, S. and Newell, E. (2005). What Can One Person Do?, Church Publishing Incorporated.

2004

Alkire, S. (2004). ‘A vital core that must be treated with the same gravitas as traditional security threats’, Security Dialogue, 2004, Vol. 35(3), pp. 359–360.

Alkire, S. (2004). ‘Culture, poverty and external Intervention’, in V. Rao and M. Walton (eds.), Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy, Stanford University Press, pp. 185–209.

Alkire, S. (2004). ‘Concepts of human security’, in L. Chen, S. Fukuda-Parr, and E. Seidensticker (eds.), 2004, Human Insecurity in a Global World, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 15–40.

Alkire, S and Chen, L. (2004). ‘Global health and moral values’, Lancet, 2004, Vol. 364, pp. 1069–1074.

2003

Alkire, S. (2003). ‘A conceptual framework for human security’, CRISE Working Paper 2, Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE).

Alkire, S. (2003). ‘From the inside out: Religion and rights-based approaches to reproductive health’, Background paper for UNFPA-Aspen Institute retreat, November 19-21, 2003.

2002

Alkire, S. (2002). ‘Dimensions of human development’, World Development, 2002, Vol. 30(2), pp. 181–205.

Alkire, S. (2002). ‘Global citizenship and common values’, in N. Dower and J. Williams (eds.), 2002, Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 9780748615476, ch. 13.

Alkire, S. (2002). Valuing Freedoms: Sen’s Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199283316. 

Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2002). ‘Individual motivation, its nature, determinants and consequences for within group behaviour’, in J. Heyer, F. Stewart, and R. Thorp (eds.), 2002, Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?, WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford University Press, ch. 3.

Dongier, P., Van Domelen, J., Ostrom, E., Rizvi, A., Wakeman, W., Bebbington, A., Alkire, S., Esmail, T. and Polski, M. (2002). ‘Community-driven development’, in J. Klugman (ed.) 2002, A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies. Volume 1: Core Techniques and Cross-Cutting Issues, World Bank, Washington D.C., ch. 9.

2001

Alkire, S. (2001). ‘Dimensions of human development’, The World Bank.

Alkire, S. (2001). Operationalizing Sen’s capability approach. D.Phil. Thesis. Faculty of Social Studies, University of Oxford. (No e-copy.)

Alkire, S. (2001). ‘When responsibilities conflict’, Studies in Christian Ethics, 2001, Vol. 14(1), pp. 65–80.

2000

Alkire, S. (2000). ‘The basic dimensions of human flourishing: A comparison of accounts’, in N. Biggar and R. Black (eds.), 2000, The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School, Aldershot: Ashgate, (ISBN 9781138256712 of 2016 re-print by Routledge), pp. 73–110.

1997

Alkire, S. and Black, R. (1997). ‘A practical reasoning theory of development ethics: Furthering the capabilities approach’, Journal of International Development, 1997, Vol. 9(2), pp. 263–279.

1994

Alkire, S. (1994). The Concept of Poverty Alleviation in the World Bank: A Theological Analysis. MPhil thesis in Theology. University of Oxford. (No e-copy.)

Alkire, S., Black, R., Clough, D. and Gregory, E. (1994). ‘This unemployment: Disaster or opportunity?’, Theology, 1994, Vol. 97(780, November), pp. 402–413.

1993

Foster, J. (1993, revised in 2010). ‘Notes on effective freedom’, OPHI Working Paper 34, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

1992

Alkire, S., Khan, Asmatullah and Sofranko, A. (1992). ‘Farmers’ access to information and its impact on technology adoption in NWFP, Pakistan’, co-author, Journal of Rural Development and Administration, 1993, Vol. 24(4), pp. 9–24.