Publications Archive
This archive lists all papers, reports, books and book chapters published by OPHI and OPHI researchers during their time in OPHI, or based on research done with OPHI.
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2024
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). '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.
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.
Azhgaliyeva, D., Dirksen, J., Korwatanasakul, U., Lima de Miranda, K., Okitasari, M., Rahut, D., Sedai, A., Sonobe, T. and Takemoto, A. (2024). Towards and Evidence-Base for the Just Transition, Recommendation to the G7, Think 7 Task Force 2 Policy Brief.
Dirksen, J. (2024). 'Concepts and measures of development: Beyond GDP', in E. Dauncey, V. Desai and R.B. Potter (eds.) The Companion to Development Studies, Routledge, ch. 22. ISBN 9780367244248.
Evans, M., Nogales, R. and Robson, M. (2024). ‘Monetary and multidimensional poverty: Correlation, mismatches, and a combined approach’, The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 60(1), pp. 147–170.
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) et al. (2024). Multidimensional poverty in Egypt: An in-depth analysis. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation, Ministry of Social Solidarity, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2023/TP.8/Rev.1. Beirut.
Ferreira, L.Z., Wehrmeister, F.C., Dirksen, J., Vidaletti, L.P., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Kirkby, K., Ricardo, L.I.C., Barros, A.J.D., Hosseinpoor, A.R. (2024). ‘A composite index; socioeconomic deprivation and coverage of reproductive and maternal health interventions', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 102(2), pp. 105–116.
IsDB and OPHI (2024). Poverty in IsDB Member Countries in the Face of Food Insecurities, IsDB–OPHI Briefs No. 1, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
IsDB and OPHI (2024). Exploring Multidimensional Poverty of Children across IsDB Member Countries, IsDB–OPHI Briefs No. 2, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
MPPN (2024). Dimensions No. 16. July 2024.
MPPN (2024). Dimensiones No. 16. Julio 2024
MPPN (2024). The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network: Connecting policymakers to fight poverty in all its dimensions. MPPN leaflet, August 2024 edition, Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN).
OPHI and UNDP (2024). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
OPHI Update – October 2024: Global MPI 2024.
Robson, M., Vollmer, F., Dogan, B.B. and Grede, N. (2024). 'Distributional impacts of cash transfers on the multidimensional poverty of refugees: The Emergency Social Safety Net in Turkey', World Development, Vol. 179, July 2024, paper No. 106599.
Earlier version of this paper is published in 2022 as OPHI Working Paper 142.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.
SNBS and MoLSA (2024). Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Somalia Report 2024, Somalia National Bureau of Statistics (SNBS) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA).
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2023
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.Andrianarison, F., Housseini, B. and Oldiges, C. (2023). ‘Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty in Cameroon: Measurements, Determinants and Policy Implications’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon, ed. by Célestin Monga, Oxford University Press, ch. 9.
A preliminary version of this paper was published in 2022 as OPHI Working Paper 141.DCS Sri Lanka, UNICEF Sri Lanka and OPHI (2023). Sri Lanka’s Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019 Results: National and Child Analyses, Department of Census and Statistics (DCS), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Sri Lanka, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). [Found on OPHI website under National MPI Publications.]
Dirksen, J. and Lima de Miranda, K. (2023). ‘Wohlstand neu denken und messen’, Wirtschaftsdienst, 103(7), pp. 454–459.
MPPN (2023). Dimensions No. 15 (November 2023).
MPPN. (2023). Dimensiones No. 15 (Noviembre 2023).
National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). (2023). Bhutan Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022, National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan, Thimphu. [Found under National MPI Publications at OPHI website.]
NITI Aayog (2023). India. National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A Progress Review 2023. NITI Aayog, Government of India, New Delhi. [Found under National MPI Publications at OPHI website.]
Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2023). ‘Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time’, International Political Science Review, 2023, Vol. 45(1), pp. 1–28. Also as an AAM.
OPHI Update – Global MPI 2023.
Quinn, N.N. and Lombardini, S. (2023). ‘The Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment: Development and an application in Tunisia’, OPHI Research in Progress 67a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Santos, M.E., Lustig, N. and Zanetti, M.M. (2023). ‘Counting and accounting: Measuring the effectiveness of fiscal policy in multidimensional poverty reduction’, OPHI Working Paper 144, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Also published as CEQ Institute Working Paper No. 127, 2023.Santos, M.E., Lustig, N. and Zanetti, M.M. (2023). ‘Counting and accounting: Measuring the effectiveness of fiscal policy in multidimensional poverty reduction’, CEQ Institute Working Paper No. 127, 2023.
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 144.Sobhie, R. and Kisoensingh, A. (2023). Methods and techniques to determine and combat poverty in Suriname Multidisciplinary Working Group on Poverty Line Determination 2020-2023, Ministry of Labor, Employment and Youth Affairs, Suriname.
Suppa, N. (2023). ‘Deprivations rarely come alone. Multidimensional poverty dynamics in Europe,’ OPHI Research in Progress 64a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Suppa, N. (2023). ‘mpitb: A toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices,’ The Stata Journal, 2023, Vol. 23(3), pp. 625–657. Also available as AAM.
An earlier version of this paper was published as OPHI Research in Progress 62a.Suppa, N. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2023). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Harmonised level estimates and their changes over time’, OPHI Research in Progress 66a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
UNDP (2023). Understanding Multidimensional Vulnerabilities: Impact on People of Sri Lanka, United Nations Development Programme, Colombo.
UNDP and OPHI (2023). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023: Unstacking global poverty – Data for high-impact action, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Ura, K., Alkire, S., Wangdi, K., and Zangmo, T. (2023). GNH 2022, Centre for Bhutan and GNH Studies, Thimpu.
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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).Alam, A., Dutta, I., Emranul Haque, M. and Nogales, R. (2022). ‘Impact of Rohingya refugees on food prices in Bangladesh: Evidence from a natural experiment’, World Development, vol. 154, paper No. 105873.
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.Andrianarison, F., Housseini, B., and Oldiges, C. (2022): ‘Dynamics and determinants of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Cameroon’, OPHI Working Paper 141, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. Also published in The Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon, ed. by Célestin Monga, Oxford University Press, ch. 9.
ANSADE (2022). Pauvreté Multidimensionnelle en Mauritanie 2022. ANSADE, Nouakchott. [Found under National MPI Publications at OPHI website.]
CIDES (2022). Compendium of Experiences and Lessons Learned from the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty in the Americas. Prepared by the Inter-American Committee on Social Development (CIDES) of the Organization of American States (OAS).
CIDES (2022). Compendio sobre Experiencias y Lecciones Aprendidas en la Medición de la Pobreza Multidimensional en las Américas. Elaborado por la Comisión Interamericana de Desarrollo Social de la OEA.
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.FAO and OPHI (2022). ‘Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index’, FAO Statistical Development Series, No. 19, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
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.
MPPN (2022). Dimensions No. 13 (February, 2022).
MPPN (2022). Dimensiones No. 13 (Febrero, 2022).
MPPN (2022). Dimensions No. 14. October 2022.
MPPN (2022). Dimensiones No. 14. Octubre 2022.
MPPN (2022). The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network: Connecting policymakers to fight poverty in all its dimensions. Leaflet, September 2022 edition. Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN). Available in English, French and Spanish.
NBS Nigeria (2022). Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index (2022), National Bureau of Statistics of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, FCT Abuja. [Found under National MPI Publications at OPHI website.]
NSO Malawi and MFEA (2022). The Second Malawi Multidimensional Poverty Index Report, National Statistical Office of Malawi; Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Malawi. [Found under National MPI Publications at OPHI website.]
OPHI and IsDBI (2022). ‘Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in Egypt using the Global MPI’, IsDBI–OPHI Brief No. 6, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK.
OPHI and IsDBI (2022). Multidimensional Poverty in Afghanistan: Policy-oriented Report using the 2020 Afghanistan Income Expenditure and Labour Force Survey, IsDBI–OPHI Brief No. 7, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK.
OPHI and UNDP (2022). ‘OPHI and UNDP Regional MPI Brief. Multidimensional Poverty Index Brief: Leaving no one behind – Asia and the Pacific region 2021’, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
OPHI and UNDP (2022). ‘OPHI and UNDP Regional MPI Brief. Latin America and the Caribbean: An analysis of levels and trends in the global’, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
OPHI and UNDP (2022). ‘OPHI and UNDP Regional MPI Brief. Sub-Saharan Africa: An age group analysis of the 2021 global MPI’, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
OPHI and UNDP (2022). ‘OPHI and UNDP Regional MPI Brief. Leaving no one behind: Poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa’, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
OPHI and UNDP (2022). ‘OPHI and UNDP Regional MPI Brief. Multidimensional poverty in Voluntary National Reviews, 2016–2021’, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
OPHI and WFP (2022). Meta-Analysis of the impact and lessons learned for implementation of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme in Turkey (2016–20). Part 2: Focus Areas 2 and 3, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and World Food Programme (WFP).
OPHI Update January 2022.
OPHI Update March 2022.
OPHI Update October 2022.
OPHI Update – Global MPI 2022.
Permanyer, I. and Suppa, N. (2022). ‘Racing ahead or lagging behind? Territorial cohesion in human development around the globe’, Regional Studies, 2022, Vol. 56(12), pp. 2086–2101.
Robson, M., Vollmer, F., Doğan, B., and Grede, N. (2022). ‘Distributional impacts of cash transfers on the multidimensional poverty of refugees: The ESSN programme in Turkey’, OPHI Working Paper 142, University of Oxford.
A later Version of this paper is published in World Development, 2024, Vol. 179, paper No. 106599, with Supplementary Data code which can be accessed here.SBS (2022). Samoa: Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Report. Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Apia. [Accessible from under National MPI Publications at OPHI website.]
Shen, Y. and Alkire, S. (2022). ‘Exploring China’s potential child poverty’, China and World Economy 30(1): 82–105.
Suppa, N. (2022). ‘mpitb: A toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices,’ OPHI Research in Progress 62a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A further developed version of this paper is published in The Stata Journal, 2023, Vol. 23(3), pp. 625–657.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.
UBOS (2022). Multidimensional Poverty Index Report for Uganda, 2022. Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), Kampala. [Accessible at National MPI Publications page at OPHI website.]
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.
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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., 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. and Moreno, H. (2021). A Locally-disaggregated Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) for Bhutan, GNHC and UNICEF Bhutan Country Office.
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 in 2021 as OPHI Research in Progress 61a.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.Benítez, M.A., Ojeda Aguilera, I.M., Medina, N. (2021). Índice de pobreza multidimensional (IPM) Paraguay, Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Paraguay.
CBS and OPHI (2021). Nepal Multidimensional Poverty Index: Analysis towards action. Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of the Government of Nepal, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Kathmandu. [National MPI Publications.]
DCS, OPHI and UNICEF (2021). Multidimensional Poverty in Sri Lanka. Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) of the Government of Sri Lanka, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Colombo. [National MPI Publications]
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.Dutta, I., Nogales, R, and Yalonetzky, G. (2021). ‘Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale’, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 151, paper No. 102649.
Preliminary version of this paper is published as OPHI Working Paper 135.Dutta, I., Nogales, R. and Yalonetzky, G. (2021): ‘Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale’, OPHI Working Paper 135, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of Development Economics, vol. 151, paper No. 102649.García-Pardo, F., Pérez-Moreno, S. and Bárcena-Martín, E. (2021). ‘Leaving no country behind in human development: A fuzzy approach’, OPHI Working Paper 136, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Moreno, H. and Pinilla-Roncancio, M. (2021). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and the Route Ahead’, OPHI Briefing 57, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
MPPN (2021). Dimensions No. 12.
MPPN (2021). Dimensiones No. 12.
Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2021). ‘International Labour Migration and the Many Forms of Poverty’, Migration Studies, 2021, Vol. 9(1), pp. 115–141.
NSA (2021). Namibia Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Report 2021, Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA), Republic of Namibia. [National MPI Publications]
NSO Malawi (2021). Malawi Multidimensional Poverty Index: Report and Leaflet. National Statistical Office (NSO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development and Public Sector Reforms, with support from United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). [National MPI Publications]
OPHI and IsDBI (2021). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty across IsDB Member Countries using the global MPI’, IsDBI–OPHI Brief No. 1. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK.
OPHI and IsDBI (2021). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty across IsDB Member Countries in MENA and Europe using the global MPI’, IsDBI–OPHI Brief No. 2, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK.
OPHI and IsDBI (2021). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty across IsDB Member Countries in the Africa and Latin America regions using the global MPI’, IsDBI–OPHI Brief No. 3, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK.
OPHI and IsDBI (2021). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty across IsDB Member Countries in Asia using the global MPI’, IsDBI–OPHI Brief No. 4, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK.
OPHI and IsDBI (2021). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty in Bangladesh using the global MPI’, IsDBI–OPHI Brief No. 5, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK.
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 Papers 137, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Research on Economic Inequality, 2021, Vol. 29, pp. 105–137.Seth, S. and Yalonetzky, G. (2021). ‘Assessing Deprivation with an Ordinal Variable: Theory and Application to Sanitation Deprivation in Bangladesh,’ The World Bank Economic Review, 2021, Vol. 35(3), pp. 793–811.
An earlier version of this paper is published as OPHI Working Paper 123.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.
WHO (2021). Using Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Indices to Inform Equitable Policies and Interventions in Health Emergencies. Research brief. World Health Organization. (Commissioned from OPHI by the WHO).
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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., 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., 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., 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.
Anand, P., Ferrer, B., Gao, Q., Nogales, R. and Unterhalter, E. (2020). ‘COVID-19 as a Capability Crisis: Using the Capability Framework to Understand Policy Challenges’, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, Vol. 21(3), pp. 293–299.
Botello, S. (2020). ‘How to Explain the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty to the General Public: Workshop for Journalists in Colombia’, OPHI Briefing 52 , University of Oxford. Also available in Spanish.
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Earlier version of this paper is published as OPHI Research in Progress No. 48a (2017).Santos, M.E. and Villatoro, P. (2020). ‘The importance of reliability in the Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America (MPI-LA)’, The Journal of Development Studies, 2020, Vol. 56(9), pp. 1784–1789.
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An earlier version of this paper is published as OPHI Working Paper 123.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.
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AVA (2019). ‘More than Half of Afghans are Multidimensionally poor: Report’. Afghan Voice Agency, 01 April 2019. (On Afghanistan MPI.)
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 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., Kanagaratnam, U. and Vollmer, F. (2019). ‘More humility about what we think is good: Reflections on revising the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index,’ EADI blog 02 May 2019.
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.
Baumert, S., Fisher, J., Ryan, C., Woollen, E., Vollmer, F., Artur, L., Zorrilla-Miras, P., and Mahamane, M. (2019). ‘Forgone opportunities of large-scale agricultural investment: A 1 comparison of three models of soya production in Central Mozambique’, World Development Perspectives, 2019, Vol. 16, paper No. 100145.
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Deneulin, S. and Clausen, J. (2019). ‘Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya Sen: A review essay with reference to development in Peru’, Development Policy Review, 2019, Vol. 37(4), pp. 564–578. Previously published as OPHI Working Paper 113, University of Oxford.
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Klasen, S. and Villalobos, C. (2019). ‘Diverging identification of the poor: A non-random process. Chile 1992–2017’, OPHI Working Paper 128, University of Oxford.
Also published online in World Development, 2020, Vol. 130, June 2020, 104944.Lamsang, T. (2019). ‘A deep dive into Bhutan’. The Bhutanese, 02 January 2019.
Lisboa, S.N., Woollen E., Grundy, I., Ryan, C., Smith, H., Zorrilla-Miras, P., Baumert, S., Ribeiro, N., Vollmer, F., Holland, M., and Sitoe, A. (2019). ‘Effect of charcoal production and woodland type on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in drylands of southern Mozambique’, Forest Ecology and Management, 2020, Vol. 457, paper No. 117692.
Malapit, H., Quisumbing, A., Meinzen-Dick, R., Seymour, G., Martinez, E.M., Heckert, J., Rubin, D., Vaz, A., Yount, K.M., and the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2) Study Team. (2019). ‘Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)’, Word Development, 2019, Vol. 122, pp. 675–692.
Masset, E. and García Hombrados, J. (2019): ‘Impact of the SADA-Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project on multidimensional poverty: A comparison of dash-board and index approaches’, OPHI Working Paper 130, University of Oxford.
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PRESS RELEASE. Global MPI 2019. ‘New data challenges traditional notions of ‘rich’ and ‘poor’. July 2019.
PRESS RELEASE. sOPHIa launch. ‘Oxford University launches social enterprise to help business fight poverty’. March 2019.
Santos, M.E., Dabus, C., and Delbianco, F. (2019). ‘Growth and poverty revisited from a multidimensional perspective’, Journal of Development Studies, 2019, Vol. 55(2), pp. 260–277.
Former OPHI Working Paper 105 (2016).Seth, S. and Santos, M.E. (2019). ‘On the interaction between focus and distributional properties in multidimensional poverty measurement’, Social Indicators Research, 2019, Vol. 145(2), pp. 503–521.
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Also published in the Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, Vol. 67(4), pp. 977–1004.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]
Smith, H.E., Jones, D., Vollmer, F., Baumert, S., Ryan, C.M., Woollen, E., Lisboa, S.N., Carvalho, M., Fisher, J.A., Luz, A.C., Grundy, I.M. and Patenaude, G. (2019). ‘Urban energy transitions and rural income generation: Sustainable opportunities for rural development through charcoal production,’ World Development, 2019, Vol. 113, pp. 237–245.
Smith, H.A., Ryan, C.M., Vollmer, F., Woollen, E., Keane, A., Fisher, J.A., Baumert, S., Grundy, I.M., Carvalho, M., Lisboa, S.N., Luz, A.C., Zorilla-Miras, P., Patenaude, G., Ribeiro, N., Artur, L., and Mahamane, M. (2019). ‘Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing: Evidence from rural Mozambique’, Global Environmental Change, 2019, Vol. 59, pp. 4–13.
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Also published in Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 2018, Vol. 25(2), pp. 21–51.Vaz, A., Malaeb, B. and Quinn, N.N. (2019). ‘Evaluation of programs with multiple objectives: Multidimensional methods and empirical application to Progresa in Mexico’, OPHI Research in Progress 55a, University of Oxford.
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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.
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Later version of this paper: OPHI Research in Progress 54b.Bagchi, S. (2018). ‘Southern comfort: India’s global poverty rank improves’, The Hindu, 13 May 2018.
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Former OPHI Working Paper 80 (from 2014).Seth, S. and McGillivray, M. (2018). ‘Composite indices, alternative weights, and comparison robustness’, Social Choice Welfare, 2018, Vol. 51, pp. 657–679.
Former OPHI WP 106 (from 2016).Seth, S. and Santos, M. E. (2018). ‘Multidimensional inequality and human development’, OPHI Working Paper 114, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A later version of this paper is published in E. Chiappero-Martinetti, S. Osmani and M. Qizilbash (eds.), 2020, The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach, ch. 20, ISBN 9781316335741.Seth, S. and Yalonetzky, G. (2018). ‘Assessing deprivation with ordinal variables: Depth sensitivity and poverty aversion’, OPHI Working Paper 123, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in World Bank Economic Review, 2021, Vol. 35(3), pp. 793–811.Song, S. and Imai, K.S. (2018). ‘Does the Hunger Safety Net Programme reduce Multidimensional poverty? Evidence from Kenya’, OPHI Working Paper 124, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
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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.Zorilla-Miras, P., Mahamane, M., Metzger, M., Baumert, S., Vollmer, F., Luz, A. C., Woollen, E., Sitoe, A.A., Patenaude, G., Nhantumbo, I., Ryan, C.M., Paterson, J., Matediane, M.J., Ribeiro, N.S., and Grundy, I.M. (2018). ‘Environmental conservation and social benefits of charcoal production in Mozambique,’ Ecological Economics, 2018, Vol. 144, pp. 100–111.
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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.
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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.
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.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.
Formerly published as 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).Drèze, J. (2017). ‘Economics among the road scholars’, chapter 1 of ‘Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone (2017)’ by Jean Drèze. Permanent Black, ISBN 8178245213.
Krishnakumar, J. and Nogales, R. (2017). ‘Public policies for wellbeing with justice: A theoretical discussion based on capabilities and opportunities’, In Muñoz I., Blondet M. and Gamio G (eds.), Ética, Agencia y Desarrollo Humano (p. 99-126). Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima-Peru, ISBN: 9786123172473. (First published in International Journal of Wellbeing, 2015, Vol. 5(3), pp. 44–62).
Kunze, L. and Suppa, N. (2017). ‘Bowling alone or bowling at all? The effect of unemployment on social participation’, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2017, Vol. 133, pp. 213–235.
LAS, ESCWA, UNICEF and OPHI. (2017). ‘Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report. LAS, ESCWA, UNICEF and OPHI. In Arabic. Download from UNICEF Middle East and North Africa website.
LAS, ESCWA, UNICEF and OPHI. (2017). ‘Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report. LAS, ESCWA, UNICEF and OPHI. In English. Download from UNICEF Middle East and North Africa website.
Moreno, C. (2017). ‘Defining MPI dimensions through participation: The case of El Salvador’, OPHI Briefing 49, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
NSB of Royal Government of Bhutan and OPHI (2017). Bhutan: Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017, National Statistics Bureau (NSB) of Royal Government of Bhutan, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Oldiges, C. (2017). ‘Measuring malnutrition and dietary diversity: Theory and evidence from India’, OPHI Working Paper 108, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
PD GAP (2017). Andra Pradesh Multidimensional Poverty Index Report 2017. Planning Department of Government of Andra Pradesh, India.
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.
Formerly published as OPHI Working Paper 77 (2014).Seth, S. and Villar, A. (2017). ‘Human development, inequality, and poverty: Empirical findings’, OPHI Working Paper 111, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being (ed. C. D’Ambrosio), Luxembourg, 2010, ch. 4.Seth, S. and Villar, A. (2017). ‘Measuring human development and human deprivations’. OPHI Working Paper 110, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being (ed. C. D’Ambrosio), Luxembourg, 2010, ch. 3.Suppa, N. (2017). “Transitions in poverty and deprivations: An analysis of multidimensional poverty dynamics’, OPHI Working Paper 109, University of Oxford.
Also published online in Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, Vol. 51(2), pp. 235–258.Suppa, N. (2017). ‘Walls of glass. Measuring deprivation in social participation.’ OPHI Research in Progress 49a, University of Oxford.
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 117 (2018).Zavaleta, D. and Angulo, R. (2017). ‘National roundtable and dashboard for poverty reduction in Colombia’, OPHI Briefing 45, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Zavaleta, D. and Moreno, C. (2017). ‘CONEVAL: Institution-building for multidimensional poverty measurement in Mexico’, OPHI Briefing 44, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
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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. [National MPI Publications]
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, 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.
Angulo, R. (2016). ‘From multidimensional poverty measurement to multisector public policy for poverty reduction: Lessons from the Colombian case’, OPHI Working Paper 102, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Angulo Salazar, R. C., Díaz, B. Y., and Pardo Pinzón, R. (2016). ‘The Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index: Measuring poverty in a public policy context’, Social Indicators Research, 2016, Vol. 127, pp. 1–38.
Castleman, T. (2016). “The role of human recognition in development” in Oxford Development Studies, 2016, Vol. 44(2), pp. 135–151.
An earlier version published as ‘Human recognition and economic development: An introduction and theoretical model’, OPHI Working Papers 63, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, 2013.Hammock, J. and Aguilar, J. (2016). ‘Public private partnership: The Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI Briefing 39, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
MPDR Pakistan (2016). Multidimensional Poverty in Pakistan, Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform, Pakistan. [National MPI Publications]
Moreno, C. (2017). ‘Defining MPI dimensions through participation: The case of El Salvador.’ OPHI Briefing 49, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
OPHI (2016). ‘Chad Multidimensional Deprivation and Vulnerability Survey’, OPHI Working Paper 104, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Santos, M. E. and Villatoro, P. (2016). ‘A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America’, Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, Vol. 64(1), pp. 52–82.
An earlier version of this paper is published in 2015 as OPHI Working Paper 79, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.Santos, M. E., Dabus, C., and Delbianco, F. (2016). ‘Growth and poverty revisited from a multidimensional perspective’, OPHI Working Paper 105, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Seth, S. and McGillivray, M. (2016). ‘Composite indices, alternative weights, and comparison robustness’, OPHI Working Paper 106, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published online in Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, Vol. 51, pp. 657–679.Suppa, N. (2016). ;Comparing monetary and multidimensional poverty in Germany’, OPHI Working Paper 103, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
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.
Zavaleta, D., Samuel, K. and Mills, C. T. (2016). ‘Measures of social isolation’, Social Indicators Research, 2017, Vol. 131, pp. 361–391.
An earlier version published as ‘Social isolation: A conceptual and measurement proposal’, OPHI Working Papers 67, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, 2014. -
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’, The Pakistan Development Review, 2015, Vol. 54(4) part 1, pp. 287–299.
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, 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, 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: 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’, Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, ch. 1 – Introduction (OPHI Working Paper 82).
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 Papers 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 Papers 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 Papers 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 Papers 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 Papers 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 Papers 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 Papers 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 Papers 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., 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.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.Ballon, P. and Duclos, J.-Y. (2015) ‘Multidimensional poverty in Sudan and South Sudan’, OPHI Working Paper 93, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Diaz, Y., Espinoza, F. A., Markaki, Y., and Sanchez-Cespedes, L. M. (2015). ‘Targeting Grenada’s most deprived population: A multidimensional living conditions assessment’, OPHI Working Papers 92, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Duclos, J.-Y. and Housseini, B. (2015). ‘Quality, quantity and Duration of Lives’, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, Vol. 48(1), pp. 1–27.
Mahoozi, H. (2015). ‘Gender and spatial disparity of multidimensional poverty in Iran’, OPHI Working Papers 95, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
OPHI. (2015). ‘Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: Insights from around the World’, OPHI Briefing 30, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
OPHI. (2015). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015+’, OPHI Briefing 29, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
OPHI. (2015). ‘Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries’, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Conference of European Statisticians. UNECE Working Paper 18.
OPHI. (2015). ‘Uncovering poverty’s complexities’. UKCDR Research Impact case study.
Santos, M. E., Villatoro, P., Mancero, X., and Gerstenfeld, P. (2015). ‘A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America’, OPHI Working Paper 79, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in the Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, Vol. 64(1), pp. 52–82.Suppa, N. (2015). ‘Towards a Multidimensional Poverty Index for Germany’, OPHI Working Papers 98, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
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.Vaz, A. (2015). ‘How many children live in poverty? An estimation of global child multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Research in Progress 45a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. PERMANENTLY EMBARGOED.
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.Zavaleta, D. and Vargas, M. (eds.) (2015). Las dimensiones faltantes en la medición de la pobreza, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and Banco de desarrollo de América Latina (CAF).
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2014
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2014). ‘Evaluating dimensional and distributional contributions to Multidimensional Poverty’, Social Choice and Welfare Conference 2014, Boston College. Mimeo.
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.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., 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.
This report counts also as Global MPI report No. 5.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., 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.Foster, J.E. (2010). 'A report on Mexican multidimensional poverty measurement', OPHI Working Papers 40, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Klein, E. (2014). ‘Psychological agency: Evidence from the urban fringe of Bamako”. OPHI Working Papers 69, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in World Development, 2014, Vol. 64, pp. 642–653.Mills, C., Zavaleta, D., and Samuel, K. (2014). ‘Shame, humiliation and social isolation: Missing dimensions of poverty and suffering analysis.” OPHI Working Papers 71, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in R. E, Anderson (ed.), World Suffering and the Quality of Life, New York: Springer, 2015, ch. 19.Morrone, A. (2014). ‘Measuring conjoint vulnerabilities in Italy: An asset-based approach’, OPHI Working Papers 70, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
O’Reilly, J., Nazio, T., and Roche, J. M. (2014). ‘Compromising conventions: Attitudes of dissonance and indifference towards full-time maternal employment in Denmark, Spain, Poland and the UK’, Work, Employment and Society, 2014, Vol. 28(2), pp. 168–188.
Porter, C. and Quinn, N.N. (2014). ‘Measuring intertemporal poverty: Policy options for the poverty analyst’, in: Betti, G. and Lemmi, A. (eds.), Poverty and Social Exclusion, Routledge, UK, ch. 1.
Robano, V. and Smith, S. C. (2014). ‘Multidimensional targeting and evaluation: A general framework with an application to a poverty program in Bangladesh’, OPHI Working Papers 65, 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.Santos, M. E. (2014). ‘Measuring multidimensional poverty in Latin America: Previous experience and the way forward’, OPHI Working Papers 66, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Santos, M. E. and Santos, G. (2014). ‘Composite indices of development’, in B. Currie-Alder, R. Kanbur, D. M. Malone, R. Medhora (eds.), International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects, Oxford University Press, ch. 8.
Santos, M.E. (2014), ‘El Indice Multidimensional y Trampas de Pobreza en el Cono Sur’, Problemas del Desarrollo , Vol. 178(45), pp. 89–112.
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.Vaz, A. (2014). ‘Are children among the poorest?’, OPHI Briefing 26, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Yalonetzky, G. (2014). ‘Conditions for the most robust multidimensional poverty comparisons using counting measures and ordinal variables’, Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, Vol. 43(4), pp. 773–807.
Also published in 2012 as ECINEQ Working Paper 2012-257, and in 2011 as OPHI Working Paper No. 44b.Zavaleta, D., Samuel, K., and Mills, C. (2014). ‘Social isolation: A conceptual and measurement proposal’, OPHI Working Papers 67, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as ‘Measures of Social Isolation’ in Social Indicators Research, 2017, Vol. 131, pp. 367–391.
Spanish version: Las dimensiones faltantes en la medición de la pobreza, pp. 97–111, CAF - Banco de Desarrollo de America Latina. -
2013
Agbodji, A. E., Batana, Y. M., and Ouedraogo, D. (2013). ‘Gender inequality in multidimensional welfare deprivation in West Africa: The case of Burkina Faso and Togo’, OPHI Working Papers 64, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS6522, 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, 2013.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). ‘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 Papers 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.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 Paper 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., Seth, S. and Sumner, A. (2013). 'Where do the world's poorest live? 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).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.
This Briefing also counts as Global MPI report No. 4.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).Angulo Salazar, R. C., Díaz, B. Y., and Pardo Pinzón, R. (2013). ‘A counting Multidimensional Poverty Index in public policy context: The case of Colombia’, OPHI Working Paper 62, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A later version of this paper is published in Social Indicators Research, 2016, Vol. 127, pp. 1–38.Apablaza, M. and Yalonetzky, G. (2013). ‘Decomposing multidimensional poverty dynamics’, Young Lives Working Paper 101.
Azevedo, V. and Robles, M. (2013). ‘Multidimensional targeting: Identifying beneficiaries of conditional cash transfer programs’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 447–475.
Bárcena-Martin, E. and Silber, J. (2013). ‘On the generalization and decomposition of the Bonferroni Index’, Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, Vol. 41, pp. 763–787.
Batana, Y. M. (2013). ‘Multidimensional measurement of poverty among women in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 337–362.
See also OPHI Working Paper 13 (2008).Battiston, D., Cruces, G., Lopez-Calva, L. F., Lugo, M. A., and Santos, M. E. (2013). ‘Income and beyond: Multidimensional poverty in six Latin American countries”. Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 291–314.
See also OPHI Working Paper 17 (2009).Bennett, C.J. and Mitra, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional poverty: Measurement, estimation, and inference’, Econometric Reviews, 2013, Vol. 32(1), pp. 57–83.
See also OPHI Working Paper 47 (2011).Castleman, T. (2013). ‘Human recognition and economic development: An introduction and theoretical model’, OPHI Working Papers 63, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as ‘The role of human recognition in development’ in Oxford Development Studies, 2016, Vol. 44(2), pp. 135–151.Foster, J. and Santos, M. E. (2013). ‘Measuring chronic poverty’, in: G. Betti and A. Lemmi (eds.) Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis, Routledge, ch. 8.
See also OPHI Working Paper 52 (2012).Foster, J. E., McGillivray, M., and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Composite indices: Rank robustness, statistical association and redundancy’. Econometric Reviews, 2013, Vol. 32(1), pp. 35–56.
See also OPHI Working Paper 26 (2009) and OPHI Working Paper 26b (2012).Foster, J. E., Seth S., Lokshin, M., and Sajaia Z. (2013). A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice, The World Bank, Washington DC.
Mitra, S. (2013). ‘Towards a multidimensional measure of governance’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 477–496.
O’Reilly, J., Nazio, T., and Roche, J. M. (2014). ‘Compromising conventions: Attitudes of dissonance and indifference towards full-time maternal employment in Denmark, Spain, Poland and the UK’, Work, Employment and Society, 2014, Vol. 28(2), pp. 168–188.
OPHI. (2013). ‘Constructing a multidimensional poverty measure’, OPHI Briefing 18, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also available in Russian, Spanish and French.OPHI. (2013). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2013 (2-page issue)’, OPHI Briefing 17, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Porter, C. and Quinn, N.N. (2014). ‘Measuring intertemporal poverty: Policy options for the poverty analyst’, in: Betti, G. and Lemmi, A. (eds.), Poverty and Social Exclusion, Routledge, UK, ch. 1.
Roche, J. M. (2013). ‘Monitoring progress in child poverty reduction: Methodological insights and illustration to the case study of Bangladesh’, OPHI Working Paper 57, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 363–390.Roche, J. M. (2013). ‘Monitoring progress in child poverty reduction: Methodological insights and illustration to the case study of Bangladesh’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 363–390.
See also OPHI Working Paper 57 (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.
Samman, E. and Santos, M. E. (2013). ‘Poor and dissatisfied? Income poverty, poverty transitions and life satisfaction in Chile’, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 2013, Vol. 21(1), pp. 19–31.
Santos, M. E. (2013). ‘Tracking poverty reduction in Bhutan: Income deprivation alongside deprivation in other sources of happiness’, Social Indicators Research, 2-13, Vol. 112(2), pp. 259–290.
Seth, S. (2013). ‘A class of distribution and association sensitive multidimensional welfare indices’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, Vol. 11(2), pp. 133–162.
Trani, J.F., Biggeri, M., and Mauro, V. (2013). ‘The multidimensionality of child poverty: Evidence from Afghanistan’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 391–416.
Yalonetzky, G. (2013). ‘Stochastic dominance with ordinal variables: Conditions and a test’, Econometric Reviews, 2013, Vol. 32(1), pp. 126–163.
Yu, J. (2013). ‘Multidimensional poverty in China: Findings based on the CHNS’, Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 315–336.
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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.
This briefing also counts as OPHI Global MPI report No. 3.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.Asadullah, M. N. and Yalonetzky, G. (2012). ‘Inequality of educational opportunity in India: Changes over time and across states’, World Development, 2012, Vol. 40(6), pp. 1151–1163.
Also published in 2010 as IZA Working Paper 5146.Bárcena-Martin, E. and Silber, J. (2012). ‘On the generalization and decomposition of the Bonferroni Index’, OPHI Working Papers 51, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, Vol. 41, pp. 763–787.Calvo, C. and Fernandez, F. (2012). ‘Measurement errors and multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Working Papers 50, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Foster, J.E. and Santos, M.E. (2012). ‘Measuring chronic poverty’, OPHI Working Papers 52, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in G. Betti and A. Lemmi (eds.) Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis, Routledge 2013, ch. 8.Foster, J., Horowitz, A. W. and Méndez, F. (2012). 'An axiomatic approach to the measurement of corruption: Theory and applications’, World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 26(2): 217–235.
See also OPHI Working Paper 29 (2009).Foster, J.E., McGillivray, M. and Seth, S. (2012). ’Rank robustness of composite indices: Dominance and ambiguity’, OPHI Working Papers 26b, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also Foster, J. E., McGillivray, M., and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy’. Econometric Reviews, 2013, Vol. 32(1), pp. 35–56, and OPHI Working Paper 26 (2009).Levine, S., Muwonge, J., and Batana, Y. M. (2012). ‘A robust multidimensional poverty profile for Uganda’, OPHI Working Papers 55, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2014, Vol. 15(4), pp. 369–390.OPHI. (2012). ‘Measuring multidimensional deprivations and living conditions based on survey data’, OPHI Briefing 09, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
OPHI. (2012). ’Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index – Brochure’, OPHI Briefing 08, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Porter, C. and Quinn, N. N. (2012). ‘Normative choices and tradeoffs when measuring poverty over time’, OPHI Working Papers 56, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Betti, G. and Lemmi A. (eds.), 2013, Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis, Routledge, ch. 9.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.
Yalonetzky, G. (2012). ‘Conditions for the most robust poverty comparisons using counting measures and ordinal variables’, ECINEQ Working Paper 2012–257.
Also published in Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, Vol. 43(4), pp. 773–807.Yalonetzky, G. (2012). ‘A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity’, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, Vol. 10(3), pp. 343–373.
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2011
Alkire, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional poverty and its discontents’. OPHI Working Papers 46, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
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 Papers 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., Foster, J. and Santos, M.E. (2011). ‘Where Did Identification Go?’ OPHI Working Papers 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.
This briefing counts also as OPHI Global MPI Report No. 2.Bennett, C.J. and Mitra, S. (2011). ‘Multidimensional poverty: Measurement, estimation, and inference’, OPHI Working Papers 47, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Econometric Reviews, 2013, Vol. 32(1), pp. 57–83.Nussbaumer, P., Bazilian, M., Modi, V. and Yumkella, K. K. (2011). ‘Measuring energy poverty: Focusing on what matters’, OPHI Working Papers 42, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2012, Vol. 16(1), pp. 231–243.Ravallion, M. (2011). ‘On multidimensional indices of poverty’, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, Vol. 9(2), pp. 235–248.
Santos, M. E. (2011). ‘Human capital and the quality of education in a poverty trap model’, Oxford Development Studies, 2011, Vol. 39(1), pp. 25–47.
Silva-Leander, S. (2011). ‘On the possibility of measuring freedom: A Kantian perspective’, OPHI Working Paper 49, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Silva-Leander, S. (2011). ‘Revealed meta-preferences: Axiomatic foundations of normative assessments in the capability approach’, OPHI Working Paper 48, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Yalonetzky, G. (2011). ‘Conditions for the most robust poverty comparisons using the Alkire-Foster family of measures (revised and updated)’, OPHI Working Papers 44b, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A version of this paper is also published in Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, Vol. 43(4), pp. 773–807, and as ECINEQ Working Paper 2012-257. -
2010
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). ‘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). ‘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 Papers 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 Papers 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 Papers 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). ‘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.
Asadullah, M. N. and Yalonetsky, G. (2010). ‘Inequality of educational opportunity in India: Changes over time and across states’, IZA Discussion Paper No. 5146.
Also published in 2012 in World Development, 2012, Vol. 40(6), pp. 1151–1163.Cassar, L. (2010). ‘Revisiting informality: Evidence from employment characteristics and job satisfaction in Chile’, OPHI Working Papers 41, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Foster, J. (1993, revised in 2010). ‘Notes on effective freedom’, OPHI Working Papers 34, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Foster, J. (2010). ‘Freedom, opportunity and wellbeing’, OPHI Working Papers 35, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in K. J. Arrow, A. Sen, and K. Suzumura (eds.), Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, volume 2, 2011, Elsevier, 2012, ch. 24 (pp. 687–728).Foster, J.E. (2010). ‘A report on Mexican multidimensional poverty measurement’, OPHI Working Papers 40, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in J. Boltvinik et al. (eds.), Medición Multidimensional de la Pobreza en México, El Colegio de México.
Foster, J. and Wolfson, M. C. (2010). ‘Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the US’, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, Vol. 8(2), pp. 247–273.
An Erratum to this article was published on 15 May 2011.Yalonetzky, G. (2010). ‘A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity (revised and updated)’, OPHI Working Papers 39, University of Oxford.
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2009
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. 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 Paper 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. 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.
Battiston, D., Cruces, G., et al. (2009). ‘Income and beyond: Multidimensional poverty in six Latin American countries’, OPHI Working Paper 17, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112, pp. 291–314.Foster, J. and Wolfson, M. C. (1992, revised in August 2009). ‘Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the US’, OPHI Working Paper 31, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, Vol. 8(2), pp. 247–273.
Foster, J., Horowitz, A. W. and Méndez, F. (2009). ‘An axiomatic approach to the measurement of corruption: Theory and applications’, OPHI Working Paper 29, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This paper is also published in The World Bank Economic Review, 2012, Vol. 26(2), pp. 217–235.Foster, J., McGillivray, M. and Seth, S. (2009). ‘Rank robustness of composite indices’, OPHI Working Paper 26, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in the Econometric Reviews, 2013, Vol. 32(1), pp. 35–56.Lugo, M. A. and Maasoumi, E. (2008, revised 2009). ‘Multidimensional poverty measures from an information theory perspective’, OPHI Working Paper 10, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as 'The information basis of multivariate poverty assessments' in N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, pp. 1–29, Palgrave Macmillan.Santos, M. E. (2009). ‘Human capital and the quality of education in a poverty trap model’, OPHI Working Paper 30, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 2011, Vol. 39(1), pp. 25–47.Seth, S. (2009). ‘A class of association sensitive multidimensional welfare indices’, OPHI Working Paper 27, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This Paper is also published in the Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, Vol. 11(2), pp. 133–162.Seth, S. (2009). ‘Inequality, interactions, and human development’, OPHI Working Paper 23, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Inequality, Interactions, and Human Development, 2009, online pp. 375–396.Yalonetzky, G. (2009). ‘A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity’, OPHI Working Paper 28, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, Vol. 10, pp. 343–373.Yalonetzky, G. (2009). ‘Comparing economic mobility with heterogeneity indices: An application to education in Peru’, OPHI Working Paper 33, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
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2008
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 888 (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. 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.
Batana, Y. (2008). ‘Multidimensional measurement of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Working Paper 13,Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as 'Multidimensional measurement of poverty among women in Sub-Saharan Africa' in Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 112(2), pp. 337-362.Decancq, K. and Lugo, M. A. (2008). ‘Setting weights in multidimensional indices of well-being’, OPHI Working Paper 18, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as 'Weights in multidimensional indices of wellbeing: An overview' in Econometric Reviews, 2013, Vol. 32(1), pp. 7–34.Esposito, L. and Chiappero-Martinetti, E. (2008). ‘Restricted and unrestricted hierarchy of weights’, OPHI Working Paper 22, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as ‘Multidimensional poverty: Restricted and unrestricted hierarchy among poverty dimensions’, Journal of Applied Economics, 2010, Vol. 13(2), pp. 181–204.Fleurbaey, M. (2008). ‘Willingness-to-pay and the equivalent approach’, OPHI Working Paper 25, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Revue d’Économie Politique, 2011, Vol. 121(1), pp. 35–58.Fleurbaey, M., Schokkaert, E. and Decancq K. (2008). ‘What good is happiness?’, OPHI Working Paper 20, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as a CORE Discussion Paper 17, 2009, Université catholique de Louvain.Foster, J. and Handy, C. (2008). ‘External capabilities’, OPHI Working Paper 08, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in K. Basu and R. Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, ch. 19, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780199239115.Lugo, M. A. and Maasoumi, E. (2008, revised 2009). ‘Multidimensional poverty measures from an information theory perspective’, OPHI Working Paper 10, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as 'The information basis of multivariate poverty assessments' in N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, pp. 1–29, Palgrave Macmillan.Maasoumi, E and Lugo, M. A. (2008). ‘The information basis of multivariate poverty assessments’, in N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 1–29.
See also OPHI Working Paper 10 (rev. 2009).Njong, A.M. and Ningaye, P. (2008). ‘Characterizing weights in the measurement of multidimensional poverty: An application of data-driven approaches to Cameroonian data’, OPHI Working Paper 21, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Santos, M. E. and Ura, K. (2008). ‘Multidimensional poverty in Bhutan: Estimates and policy implications’, OPHI Working Paper 14, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in the Journal of Bhutan Studies, 2008, Vol. 18, pp. 1–50.Watson, V., Sutton, M., Dibben, C. and Ryan, M. (2008). ‘Deriving weights for the index of multiple deprivation based on societal preferences: The application of a discrete choice experiment’, OPHI Working Paper 24, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
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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 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). ‘Measuring agency: Issues and possibilities’, Indian Journal of Human Development, 2007, Vol. 1(1), pp. 163–169.
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 Paper 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 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.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.
Diprose, R. (2007). ‘Physical safety and security: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators of violence’, Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 431–458.
See also OPHI Working Paper 01 (2007).Diprose, R. (2007). ‘Safety and security: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators of violence’, OPHI Working Paper 01, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as 'Physical safety and security: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators of violence' in Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 431–458.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).Lugo, M. A. (2007). ‘Employment: A proposal for internationally comparable Indicators’, OPHI Working Papers 02, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 361–378.Lugo, M. A. (2007). ‘Employment: A proposal for internationally comparable Indicators’, Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 361–378.
See also OPHI Working Paper 02 (2007).Samman, E. (2007). ‘Psychological and subjective well-being: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators’, OPHI Working Paper 05, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 459–486.Samman, E. (2007). ‘Psychological and Subjective Well-being: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators’, Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 459–486.
See also OPHI Working Paper 05 (2007).Zavaleta, D. (2007). ‘The ability to go about without shame: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators’, OPHI Working Paper 03, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published as 'The ability to go about without shame: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators of shame and humiliation' in Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 405-430.Zavaleta, D. (2007). 'The ability to go about without shame: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators of shame and humiliation' in Oxford Development Studies, 2007, Vol. 35(4), pp. 405-430.
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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.
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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.
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.
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2004
Alkire, S and Chen, L. (2004). ‘Global health and moral values’, Lancet, 2004, Vol. 364, pp. 1069–1074.
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. (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.
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2003
Alkire, S. (2003). ‘A conceptual framework for human security’, CRISE Working Paper 2, Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE).
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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. 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.
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2001
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.
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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.
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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.
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1994
Alkire, S., Black, R., Clough, D. and Gregory, E. (1994). ‘This unemployment: Disaster or opportunity?’, Theology, 1994, Vol. 97(780, November), pp. 402–413.
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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.
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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.
Foster, J. and Wolfson, M. C. (1992, revised in August 2009). ‘Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the US’, OPHI Working Papers 31, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, Vol. 8(2), pp. 247–273.