Publications

The OPHI Working Papers series makes new academic research by OPHI researchers publicly available prior to their publication in academic journals and books. OPHI also welcomes submissions from external researchers that directly address OPHI's current research priorities. OPHI Research in Progress (RP) papers are preliminary documents posted online to stimulate discussion. OPHI Briefings highlight research themes and policy applications for use by policymakers and researchers. OPHI regularly collaborates with partners such as in the IsDBI-OPHI Briefs and IsDB-OPHI Briefs. Other joint publications are included among Special Publications.

National MPI reports, which are authored by governments, are listed in the National MPI pages.

Click to see the Publications Tile view

Authors	Title	Publication type	Publication Number	Download	Year
Natalie Naïri Quinn and Simone Lombardini	The Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment: Development and an application in Tunisia	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 67a	Download	2023
Nicolai Suppa and Usha Kanagaratnam	The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Harmonised level estimates and their changes over time	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 66a	Download	2023
Sabina Alkire and Rizwan Ul Haq	Analyzing Individual Deprivations alongside Household Poverty: Possibilities for Gendered, Intrahousehold, and Multidimensional Analyses	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 65a	Download	2023
Nicolai Suppa	Deprivations rarely come alone. Multidimensional poverty dynamics in Europe	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 64a	Download	2023
Nicolai Suppa, Sabina Alkire and Ricardo Nogales	The many forms of poverty: Analyses of deprivation interlinkages in the developing world	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 63a	Download	2022
Nicolai Suppa	mpitb: A toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 62a	Download	2022
Sabina Alkire, Ricardo Nogales, Natalie Naïri Quinn and Nicolai Suppa	Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 61a	Download	2021
Sabina Alkire and Fanni Kovesdi	A Birdseye View of Well-being: Exploring a Multidimensional Measure for the United Kingdom	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 60a	Download	2020
Sabina Alkire, Fanni Kovesdi, Elina Scheja and Frank Vollmer	Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the Way out of Poverty	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 59a	Download	2020
Frank Vollmer and Sabina Alkire	Towards a Global Assets Indicator: Re-assessing the Assets Indicator in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 53b	Download	2020
Sabina Alkire, Ricardo Nogales, Natalie Naïri Quinn and Nicolai Suppa	On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 58a	Download	2020
Sabina Alkire, Fanni Kovesdi, Monica Pinilla-Roncancio and Sophie Scharlin-Pettee	Changes over Time in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index and Other Measures: Towards National Poverty Reports	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 57a	Download	2020
Sabina Alkire, Christian Oldiges and Usha Kanagaratnam	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	RP 54b	Download	2020
Sabina Alkire, Usha Kanagaratnam, Ricardo Nogales and Nicolai Suppa	Revising the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical Insights and Robustness	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 56a	Download	2020
Ana Vaz, Bilal Malaeb and Natalie Naïri Quinn	Evaluation of Programs with Multiple Objectives: Multidimensional Methods and Empirical Application to Progresa in Mexico	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 55a	Download	2019
Sabina Alkire, Christian Oldiges and Usha Kanagaratnam	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	RP 54a	Download	2018
Frank Vollmer and Sabina Alkire	Towards a Global Assets Indicator. Re-assessing the Assets Indicator in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 53a	Download	2018
Sabina Alkire and Matthew Robson	On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 52a	Download	2018
Monica Pinilla-Roncancio and Sabina Alkire	Statistical Note: Disaggregating Bhutan’s MPI 2017 by Disability Status	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 51a	Download	2018
Géraldine Thiry, Sabina Alkire and Judith Schleicher	Incorporating Environmental and Natural Resources within Analyses of Multidimensional Poverty	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 50a	Download	2018
Nicolai Suppa	Walls of Glass. Measuring Deprivation in Social Participation	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 49a	Download	2017
Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio and Sabina Alkire	How poor are People with Disabilities around the Globe? A Multidimensional Perspective	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 48a	Download	2017
Sabina Alkire and Yangyang Shen	Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in China: 2010 to 2014	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 47a	Download	2017
Sabina Alkire and Gisela Robles	Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: Dashboards, Union Identification, and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 46a	Download	2016
Sabina Alkire	Towards Frequent and Accurate Poverty Data	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 43c	Download	2016
Ana Vaz	How Many Children Live in Poverty? An Estimation of Global Child Multidimensional Poverty	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 45a	Download	2015
Ana Vaz, Pierre Pratley and Sabina Alkire	Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad and its Associations with Breastfeeding Practices Using the Relative Autonomy Index	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 44a	Download	2015
Sabina Alkire	Towards Frequent and Accurate Poverty Data	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 43b	Download	2014
Sabina Alkire	Towards Frequent and Accurate Poverty Data	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 43a	Download	2014
Sabina Alkire, Mauricio Apablaza and Euijin Jung	Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 36c	Download	2014
Sabina Alkire, Mauricio Apablaza and Euijin Jung	Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 36b	Download	2014
Sabina Alkire, Adriana Conconi and Suman Seth	Measuring destitution in developing countries: An ordinal approach for identifying linked subset of multidimensionally poor	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 42a	Download	2014
Sabina Alkire, Jose Manuel Roche and Ana Vaz	Multidimensional poverty dynamics: Methodology and results for 34 countries	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 41a	Download	2014
César A. Amores L.	Medición de la Pobreza Multidimensional : El Caso Ecuatoriano	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 40a	Download	2014
Sabina Alkire, José Manuel Roche, Suman Seth and Andy Sumner	Where Do the World's Poorest Live?: A Multidimensional Approach to the Bottom Billion	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 39a	Download	2013
Ana Vaz, Sabina Alkire, Agnes Quisumbing and Esha Sraboni	Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 38a	Download	2013
Sabina Alkire	Well-being, Happiness, and Public Policy	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 37a	Download	2013
Sabina Alkire, Mauricio Apablaza and Euijin Jung	Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 36a	Download	2012
Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Greg Seymour and Ana Vaz	The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 35a	Download	2012
Mauricio Apablaza and Gaston Yalonetzky	Chronic Multidimensional Poverty or Multidimensional Chronic Deprivation	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 34a	Download	2012
Sebastian Silva Leander	Poverty as lack of autonomy: Bridging the absolute/relative divide?	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 33a	Download	2012
Sabina Alkire, José Manuel Roche and Suman Seth	Sub-national Disparities and Inter-temporal Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty across Developing Countries	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 32a	Download	2011
Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos	Training Material for Producing the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 31a	Download	2011
Sabina Alkire, Suman Seth, Gaston Yalonetzky and Diego Zavaleta	Training Material for Producing the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 30a	Download	2011
Suman Seth	Training Material for Producing the Human Development Index (HDI)	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 29a	Download	2011
Suman Seth	Training Material for Producing National Human Development Reports-The Gender Inequality Index (GII)	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 28a	Download	2011
Sebastian Silva-Leander	On the possibility of measuring freedom: a Kantian perspective	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 27a	Download	2011
Sebastian Silva-Leander	Revealed Meta-Preferences: Axiomatic Foundations of Normative Assessments in the Capability Approach	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 26b	Download	2011
Gaston Yalonetzky	A note on the standard errors of the members of the Alkire Foster family and its components	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 25a	Download	2011
Carlos De Los Rios and Jessica De Los Rios	A Sensitivity Assessment of Multidimensional Poverty to Various Sets of Missing Dimensions’ Indicators: The Chilean Case	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 24a	Download	2010
Sabina Alkire	Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 23a	Download	2010
Sabina Alkire, Maria Emma Santos, Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky	Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights?	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 22a	Download	2010
Viviane Azevedo and Marcos Robles	Multidimensional Targeting: Identifying Beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 20a	Download	2010
Mario Biggeri, Jean-Francois Trani and Vincenzo Mauro	The Multidimensionality of Child Poverty: an Empirical Investigation on Children of Afghanistan	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 19a	Download	2010
Lea Cassar	Quality of Employment and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Chile	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 17a	Download	2010
Gaston Yalonetzky	A Comparison Between the Pearson-based Dissimilarity Index and the Multiple-Group Overlap Index	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 16a	Download	2010
Gaston Yalonetzky	Measuring Group Disadvantage with Indices Based on Relative Distributions	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 14a	Download	2010
Sabina Alkire and James E. Foster	An Axiomatic Approach to Identification and Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 21a	Download	2009
José Manuel Roche	Capability and Group Inequalities: Revealing the Latent Structure	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 18a	Download	2009
Sabina Alkire	Conceptual Overview of Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 15a	Download	2009
Ryan Thoreson	The Pink Streak in a Grey Market: Queerness and Poverty in the Urban Philippines	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 13a	Download	2009
Maria Emma Santos, Emma Samman and Gaston Yalonetzky	Agencia de los padres y logros de los hijos: Explorando el caso de America Latina	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 12a	Download	2009
José Manuel Roche	Child Poverty Measurement: An Assessment of Methods and an Application to Bangladesh	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 11b	Download	2009
Emma Samman and Maria Emma Santos	Agency and Empowerment: A review of concepts, indicators and empirical evidence	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 10a	Download	2009
Gaston Yalonetzky	Testing for stochastic dominance among additive, multivariate welfare functions with discrete variable	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 9a	Download	2009
Sabina Alkire with James Foster	The MDGs: Multidimensionality and Interconnection	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 8a	Download	2009
Sabina Alkire and Suman Seth	Determining BPL Status: Some Methodological Improvements	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 7a	Download	2009
Sabina Alkire and Moizza B Sarwar	Multidimensional Measures of Poverty and Well-Being	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 6a	Download	2009
Sabina Alkire	Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index: Methodology and Results	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 5a	Download	2008
Sabina Alkire, Maria Emma Santos and Karma Ura	Gross National Happiness and Poverty in Bhutan: Applying the GNH Index Methodology to explore Poverty	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 4a	Download	2008
Sabina Alkire	Amartya Sen	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 3a	Download	2008
Sabina Alkire	The Capability Approach to Quality of Life Measures	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 2a	Download	2008
Sabina Alkire and James Foster	Counting and Multidimensional Poverty	OPHI Research in Progress	RP 1a	Download	2007