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2015

Alkire, S. (2015). “Capability Approach and Well-being Measurement for Public Policy.” OPHI Working Papers 94, 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). Well-being, Happiness, and Public Policy. The Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH Research. Thimphu, Bhutan.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). “High Visibility: How Disaggregated Metrics Help to Reduce Multidimensional Poverty.” OPHI Briefing 28.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). “Multidimensional Poverty index – 2015: Brief Methodological Note and Results.” OPHI Briefing 31.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). “Multidimensional Poverty index – Winter 2015/16: Brief Methodological Note and Results.” OPHI Briefing 36.

Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2015). “Poverty maps: Mapping Multidimensional Poverty so policies can fight it efficiently.” OPHI Briefing 37.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2015). “Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and How?” World Development, 72 (2015) 93–108. An earlier version is published as OPHI Working Papers 60, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Shen, Y. (2015). “Exploring Multidimensional poverty in China.” OPHI Briefing 34.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Robles, G., and Vaz, A. (2015). “Destitution: Who and Where are the Poorest of the Poor?” OPHI Briefing 35.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Robles, G., and Seth, S. (2015). “Multidimensional Poverty Index – Winter 2014/2015: Brief Methodological Note.” OPHI Briefing 27.

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. E-book.

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. Review by W. Krämer in Statistical Papers, July 2015 (DOI 10.1007/s00362-015-0702-2).

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. 7 – Data and Analysis (OPHI Working Papers 88).

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., and Robles Aguilar, G. (2015). “Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015 – 2 page briefing.” OPHI Briefing 32.

Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles, G., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2015). “Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015 – 8 page briefing.” OPHI Briefing 33.

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, 27(3): 362–387.

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, University of Oxford.

Angulo Salazar, R. C., Díaz, B. Y., and Pardo Pinzón, R. (2015). “The Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index: Measuring Poverty in an Public Policy Context.” Social Indicators Research, April 2015.

Ballon, P. and Duclos, J.-Y. (2015) “Multidimensional Poverty in Sudan and South Sudan.” OPHI Working Paper 93, 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, University of Oxford.

Duclos, J.-Y. and Housseini, B. (2015). “Quality, quantity and Duration of Lives.” Canadian Journal of Economics, 48(1): 1-27.

Foster et al. (2013): 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.

Mahoozi, H. (2015). “Gender and Spatial Disparity of Multidimensional Poverty in Iran.” OPHI Working Papers 95, University of Oxford.

OPHI. (2015). “Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: Insights from around the World.” OPHI Briefing 30.

OPHI. (2015). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015+.” OPHI Briefing 29.

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.” Published in UK CDS Making Science Work for Development: Impact Stories 2015. http://www.ukcds.org.uk/the-global-impact-of-uk-research .

OPHI Update January 2015. Link.

OPHI Update March 2015. Link.

OPHI Update May 2015. Link.

OPHI Update June 2015. Link.

OPHI Update December 2015. Link.

Santos, M. E., Villatoro, P., Mancero, X., and Gerstenfeld, P. (2015). “A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America.” OPHI Working Paper 79, University of Oxford. Also published in Income and Wealth, 2016. DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12275

Suppa, N. (2015). “Towards a Multidimensional Poverty Index for Germany.” OPHI Working Papers 98, 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, University of Oxford. Also published in T. I. Garner , K. S. Short (eds.), Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 23). Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 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”. In T. I. Garner and K. S. Short (eds.), Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 23). Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 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, University of Oxford. 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.

Vaz, A., Pratley, P., and Alkire, S. (2015). “Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index.” Feminist Economics, DOI 10.1080/13545701.2015.1108991.

Wheatley, A. (2015). “True Calling.” Finance and Development, September 2015, pp. 2–5.

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).

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 Foster, J. (2014). “Inequality – Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies.” UNU-WIDER, 5–6 September, Helsinki. DRAFT.

Alkire, S. and Housseini, B. (2014). “Multidimensional Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Levels and Trends.” OPHI Working Papers 81, University of Oxford. Also published in M. Nissanke and M. Ndulo (eds.), Poverty Reduction in the Course of African Development, 2017, ch. 5.

Alkire, S. and Samman, E. (2014). “Mobilising the Household Data Required to Progress toward the SDGs.” OPHI Working Papers 72, University of Oxford. Also published as 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 59: 251-274.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2014). “Inequality Among the MPI Poor, and Regional Disparity in Multidimensional Poverty: Levels and Trends.” OPHI Briefing 25. [Brief]

Alkire, S. and Vaz, A. (2014). “Reducing Multidimensional Poverty and Destitution: Pace and Patterns.” OPHI Briefing 23.

Alkire, S., Apablaza, M., Chakravarty, S. R., and Yalonetzky, G. (2014). “Measuring Chronic Multidimensional Poverty: A Counting Approach”. OPHI Working Papers 75, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Policy Modeling, 39(6): 983–1006.

Alkire, S., Chatterjee, M., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). “Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014.” OPHI Briefing 21.

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.

Alkire, S., Chatterjee, M., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). “Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas.” OPHI Briefing 24.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). “Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014 – At A Glance Overview.” OPHI Briefing 20.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014: Brief Methodological Note and Results.” OPHI Briefing 19.

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, University of Oxford. [Also in Journal of International Development, 27(3) (2015) 362–387.]

Foster, J.E. (2010). “A Report on Mexican Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.” In Metodología para la medición multidimensional de la pobreza en México. CONEVAL, 2014. Also as OPHI Working Papers 40, University of Oxford.

Klein, E. (2014). “Psychological Agency: Evidence from the Urban Fringe of Bamako”. OPHI Working Papers 69, University of Oxford. Also published in World Development, 64 (2014) 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, 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, University of Oxford.

OPHI Update March 2014. Link.

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, 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, University of Oxford. [WP]

Santos, M. E. (2014). “Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America: Previous Experience and the Way Forward.” OPHI Working Papers 66, 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, Maria Emma (2014), “El Indice Multidimensional y Trampas de Pobreza en el Cono Sur”, Problemas del Desarrollo 178(45): 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, University of Oxford. Updated version is published in Research on Economic Inequality (Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 25), (ed. S. Bandyopadhyay), Emerald Publishing Limited, 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, University of Oxford. Updated version of this paper is published as OPHI Working Paper 77; a further updated version can be found in Research on Economic Inequality (Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 25), (ed. S. Bandyopadhyay), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.63 – 102.

Vaz, A. (2014). “Are Children among the Poorest?” OPHI Briefing 26. [Brief]

Yalonetzky, G. (2014). “Conditions for the Most Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons Using Counting Measures and Ordinal Variables”. Social Choice and Welfare, 43(4): 773–807. Also published in 2012 as ECINEQ Working Paper 2012–257, and in 2011 as OPHI Working Papers 44b (2011).

Zavaleta, D., Samuel, K., and Mills, C. (2014). “Social Isolation: A Conceptual and Measurement Proposal.” OPHI Working Papers 67, University of Oxford. Also published as “Measures of Social Isolation” in Social Indicators Research (published online on 02 February 2016), DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1252-2.

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, University of Oxford. Also published as The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6522, 2013.

Alkire, S. and Roche, J. M. (2013). “How Multidimensional Poverty Went Down: Dynamics and Comparisons.” OPHI Briefing 16.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2013) “A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement and Beyond.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 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, University of Oxford. Supplementary data. Also published in World Development 59 (2014) 251–274.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). “Identifying BPL Households: A Comparison of Methods.” Economic and Political Weekly, 48(2): 49–57.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). “Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India 1999-2006: Slower Progress for the Poorest Groups.” OPHI Briefing 15.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). “Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India Between 1999 and 2006: Where and How?” OPHI Working Papers 60, University of Oxford. Also published in World Development, 72 (2015) 93–108.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). “Selecting a Targeting Method to Identify BPL Households in India.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 417–446.

Alkire, S. and Sumner, A. (2013). “Multidimensional Poverty and the Post-2015 MDGs.” OPHI Briefing 11.

Alkire, S. and Sumner, A. (2013). “Multidimensional Poverty and the Post-2015 MDGs.” Development, 56(1): 46–51.

Alkire, S., Conconi, A., and Roche, J. M. (2013). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013: Brief Methodological Note and Results.” OPHI Briefing 12.

Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., et al. (2013). “The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.” World Development 52 (2013) 71-91.

Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., et al. (2013). “The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.” OPHI Working Papers 58, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Seth, S. (2013). “Identifying the ‘Bottom Billion’: Beyond National Averages.” OPHI Briefing 14.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Seth, S. (2013). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013.” OPHI Briefing 13.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Sumner, A. (2013). “Where Do the World’s Multidimensionally Poor People Live?” OPHI Working Papers 61, University of Oxford.

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 Papers 62, University of Oxford. A later version of this paper is published in Social Indicators Research, April 2015.

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 112(2): 447–475. [PublPDF]

Bárcena-Martin, E. and Silber, J. (2012). “On the Generalization and Decomposition of the Bonferroni Index.” Social Choice and Welfare 41 (2013) 763–787. [PublPDF]

Batana, Y. M. (2013). “Multidimensional Measurement of Poverty among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Social Indicators Research, 112(2) (2013) 337-362.

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, 112(2) (2013) 291-314.

Bennett, C.J. and Mitra, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement, Estimation, and Inference.” Econometric Reviews 32(1) (2013) 57-83.

Castleman, T. (2013). “Human Recognition and Economic Development: An Introduction and Theoretical Model.” OPHI Working Papers 63, University of Oxford. Also published as “The role of human recognition in development” in Oxford Development Studies (published online on 22 January 2016), DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2015.1109615.

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. [Pre-print. AAM. Scan]

Foster, J. E., McGillivray, M., and Seth, S. (2013). ‘Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy’. Econometric Reviews, 32(1): 35–56.

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.

Mitra, S. (2013). “Towards a Multidimensional Measure of Governance.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 477–496. [PublPDF]

O’Reilly, J., Nazio, T., and Roche, J. M. (2013). “Compromising Conventions: Attitudes of Dissonance and Indifference towards Full-Time Maternal Employment in Denmark, Spain, Poland and the UK.” Work, Employment and Society 0(0): 1–21. [PublPDF]

OPHI. (2013). “Constructing a Multidimensional Poverty Measure.” OPHI Briefing 18. [Brief]

OPHI. (2013). “Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2013”. OPHI Briefing 17.

OPHI Update January 2013. Link.

OPHI Update March 2013. Link.

OPHI Update July 2013. Link.

OPHI Update October 2013. Link.

OPHI Update December 2013. Link.

Porter, C. and Quinn, N.N. (2013). ‘Measuring Intertemporal Poverty: Policy options for the poverty analyst’. In: Betti, G. and Lemmi, A. (eds.), Poverty and Social Exclusion, ch.1. Routledge, UK.

Roche, J. M. (2013). “Estratificación social en Venezuela: revelando la estructura latente a la desigualdad en ‘capacidades,’” en M. Parra de Niño y V. Zubillaga (Eds.) Hacer sociología en Venezuela juntos con Alberto Gruson. Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

Roche, J. M. (2013). “Monitoring Progress in Child Poverty Reduction: Methodological Insights and Illustration to the Case Study of Bangladesh.” OPHI Working Paper 57, University of Oxford. [See also next record.]

Roche, J. M. (2013). “Monitoring Progress in Child Poverty Reduction: Methodological Insights and Illustration to the Case Study of Bangladesh.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 363–390.

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 21(1): 19–31.

Santos, M. E. (2013). “Tracking Poverty Reduction in Bhutan: Income Deprivation Alongside Deprivation in Other Sources of Happiness.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 259–290.

Seth, S. (2013). ‘A Class of Distribution and Association Sensitive Multidimensional Welfare Indices’. Journal of Economic Inequality, 11(2): 133–162.

Trani, J._F., Biggeri, M., and Mauro, V. (2013). “The Multidimensionality of Child Poverty: Evidence from Afganistan.” Social Indicators Research, 112(2): 391–416.

Yalonetzky, G. (2013). “Stochastic Dominance with Ordinal Variables: Conditions and a Test.” Econometric Reviews, 32(1): 126-163.

Yu, J. (2013). “Multidimensional Poverty in China: Findings Based on the CHNS.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 315–336.

2012

Alkire, S. and Robles Aguilar, G. (2012). “Least Developed Countries and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).” OPHI Briefing 10.

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.

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, University of Oxford. Also published in Economic and Political Weekly, 48(2): 49–57.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2012). “Selecting a Targeting Method to Identify BPL Households in India.” OPHI Working Papers 53, University of Oxford. Also published in Social Indicators Research 112(2): 417–446.

Alkire, S., Ura, K., and Zangmo, T. (2012. “GNH and the GNH Index: A Short Guide to Gross National Happiness Index,” with Karma Ura and Tshoki Zangmo. Centre for Bhutan Studies Publication. 2012.

Alkire, S., Ura, K., 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.

Asadullah, M. N. and Yalonetzky, G. (2012). “Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States”. World Development 40(6): 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, University of Oxford. Also in Social Choice and Welfare 41 (2013) 763–787. [WP and PublPDF]

Calvo, C. and Fernandez, F. (2012). “Measurement Errors and Multidimensional Poverty.” OPHI Working Papers 50, University of Oxford.

Foster, J.E. and Santos, M.E. (2012). “Measuring Chronic Poverty.” OPHI Working Papers 52, University of Oxford. Also 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, 26(2): 217–235, 2012.

Foster, J.E., McGillivray, M. and Seth, S. (2012). “Rank Robustness of Composite Indices: Dominance and Ambiguity.” OPHI Working Papers 26b, University of Oxford.

Levine, S., Muwonge, J., and Batana, Y. M. (2012). A Robust Multidimensional Poverty Profile for Uganda.” OPHI Working Papers 55, University of Oxford.

Nussbaumer, P., Bazilian, M., Modi, V., and Yumkella, K. K. (2011). “Measuring Energy Poverty: Focusing on What Matters.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16(1): 231–243, 2012.

OPHI. (2012). “Measuring Multidimensional Deprivations and Living Conditions Based on Survey Data.” OPHI Briefing 09.

OPHI. (2012). “Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index – Brochure.” OPHI Briefing 08.

OPHI Update March 2012. Link.

OPHI Update May 2012. Link.

OPHI Update August 2012. Link.

OPHI Update October 2012. Link.

Porter, C. and Quinn, N. N. (2012). “Normative Choices and Tradeoffs When Measuring Poverty over Time.” OPHI Working Papers 56, University of Oxford.

Ura et al. (2012): Ura, K., Alkire, S., Zangmo, T., and Wangdi, K. (2012). An Extensive Analysis of The Gross National Happiness Index. Centre of Bhutan Studies.

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 43(4) (2014) 773–807.

Yalonetzky, G. (2012). “A Dissimilarity Index of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity.” Journal of Economic Inequality, 10 (3): 343-373, 2012.

2011

Alkire, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents.” OPHI Working Papers 46, University of Oxford. Also in A. Aglietta, Alkire, S., and Bourguignon, F., Clark, A. E., Deaton, A., and Senik, C. (eds.), Measure for Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development? Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference. Paris, December 1st, 2010. Agence française de développement, 2011.

Alkire, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents.” In: R. Peccoud (ed.), Measure for Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development?” Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference, Paris, December 1st, 2010. EUDN, ch. 6.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). “Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.” Journal of Public Economics, 95(7–8): 476–487.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). “Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.” OPHI Working Papers 43, University of Oxford. [See also the next record.]

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). “Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.” Journal of Economic Inequality 9(2): 289–314.

Alkire, S. and Roche, J.M. (2011). “Beyond Headcount: Measures that Reflect the Breadth and Components of Child Poverty.” OPHI Working Papers 45, 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. [WP. Scan]

Alkire, S., Foster, J. and Santos, M.E. (2011). “Where Did Identification Go?” OPHI Working Papers 43b, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Economic Inequality (JEI) 9: 501-505.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., and Seth, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011: Brief Methodological Note.” OPHI Briefing 05.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., and Seth, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011 – Two Page Briefing.” OPHI Briefing 06.

Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., and Seth, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011 – Research Brief.” OPHI Briefing 07.

Bennett, C.J. and Mitra, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement, Estimation, and Inference.” OPHI Working Papers 47, University of Oxford. Also published in Econometric Reviews 32(1) (2013) 57-83.

Fleurbaey, M. (2011). “Willingness-To-Pay and the Equivalent Approach.” Revue d’Économie Politique, 121(1) (2011) 35–58.

Nussbaumer, P., Bazilian, M., Modi, V., and Yumkella, K. K. (2011). “Measuring Energy Poverty: Focusing on What Matters.” OPHI Working Papers 42, University of Oxford. Also published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16(1): 231–243, 2012.

OPHI Update January 2011. Link.

OPHI Update April 2011. Link.

OPHI Update August 2011. Link.

OPHI Update December 2011. Link.

Ravallion, M. (2011). “On Multidimensional Indices of Poverty.” The Journal of Economic Inequality, 9(2): 235–248.

Santos, M. E. (2011). “Human Capital and the Quality of Education in a Poverty Trap Model.” Oxford Development Studies, 39(1): 25–47.

Silva-Leander, S. (2011). “On the Possibility of Measuring Freedom: A Kantian Perspective.” OPHI Working Papers 49, University of Oxford.

Silva-Leander, S. (2011). “Revealed Meta-Preferences: Axiomatic Foundations of Normative Assessments in the Capability Approach.” OPHI Working Papers 48, 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, University of Oxford. A more general version is published in Social Choice and Welfare 43(4) (2014) 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.

Alkire, S. (2010). “Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts.” OPHI Working Papers 36, University of Oxford. Also in Human Development Research Paper 2010/01, UNDP.

Alkire, S. (2010). “Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontent.” In Measure for Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development? Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference 2010, edited by R. Peccoud. Paris, pp. 53-96.

Alkire, S. (2010). “Instrumental Freedoms and Human Capabilities.” In: S. L. Esquith and F. Gifford (eds.) Capabilities, Power, and Institutions. The Pennsylvanian State University Press, ch. 1.

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, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M.E. (2010). “Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries.” OPHI Working Papers 38, University of Oxford. Also in Human Development Research Paper 2010/11, UNDP.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2010). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2010 – Research Briefing.” OPHI Briefing 01.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2010). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2010 – Two Page Briefing.” OPHI Briefing 02.

Alkire, S., Santos, M. E., Seth, S., and Yalonetzky, G. (2010). “Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index Robust to Different Weights?” OPHI Briefing 03.

Asadullah, M. N. and Yalonetsky, G. (2010). “Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Cganges over Time and across States.” IZA Discussion Paper No. 5146. Also published in 2012 in World Development 40(6): 1151–1163.

Cassar, L. (2010). “Revisiting Informality: Evidence from Employment Characteristics and Job Satisfaction in Chile.” OPHI Working Papers 41, University of Oxford.

Esposito, L. and Chiappero-Martinetti, E. (2010). “Multidimensional Poverty: Restricted and Unrestricted Hierarchy among Poverty Dimensions.” Journal of Applied Economics, 13(2) (2010) 181-204.

Foster, J. (1993, revised in 2010). “Notes on Effective Freedom.” OPHI Working Papers 34, University of Oxford.

Foster, J. (2010). “Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing.” OPHI Working Papers 35, University of Oxford. Also published in K. J. Arrow, A. Sen, and K. Suzumura (eds.), Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, volume 2. Elsevier, 2012, ch. 24.

Foster, J.E. (2010). “A Report on Mexican Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.” OPHI Working Papers 40, University of Oxford. Also in Metodología para la medición multidimensional de la pobreza en México. CONEVAL, 2014.

Foster, J. and Wolfson, M. C. (2010). “Polarization and the Decline of the Middle Class: Canada and the US.” The Journal of Economic Inequality, 8(2): 247–273.

OPHI Update February 2010. Link.

OPHI Update April 2010. Link.

OPHI Update July 2010. Link.

OPHI Update October 2010. Link.

Yalonetzky, G. (2010). “A Dissimilarity Index of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity (revised and updated).” OPHI Working Papers 39, University of Oxford. Also in Journal of Economic Inequality, 10 (3): 343-373, 2012.

2009

Alkire, S. (2009). “Development: ‘A Misconceived Theory Can Kill’.” In: C. W. Morris (ed.), Amartya Sen: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge University Press, p. 191-120. Also published in 2008 as OPHI Working Paper 11.

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 Deneulin, S. (2009). “A Normative Framework for Development.” In: S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 1.

Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2009). “Human Development and Capability Approach.” In: S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 2.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). “Counting and Multidimensional Poverty.” In: J. von Braun, R. Vargas Hill, and R. Pandya-Lorch (eds.) The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, and Actions. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., ch. 3.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). “Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (revised and updated).” OPHI Working Papers 32, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Public Economics, 95(7–8): 476–487.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (revised in 2009). “Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (short version).” OPHI Working Papers 07.5, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2009). “Poverty and Inequality Measurement.” In: S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 6.

Alkire, S., 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.” Research Report 31. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission. [Chapter PDFs]

Battiston, D., Cruces, G., et al. (2009). “Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries.” OPHI Working Papers 17, University of Oxford. Also published in Social Indicators Research, 112(2) (2013) 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 Papers 31, University of Oxford. Also published in The Journal of Economic Inequality, 8(2): 247–273.

Foster, J., Horowitz, A. W., and Méndez, F. (2009). “An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Corruption: Theory and Applications.” OPHI Working Papers 29, University of Oxford. Also published in the World Bank Economic Review, 26(2): 217–235, 2012.

Foster, J., McGillivray, M. and Seth, S. (2009). “Rank Robustness of Composite Indices.” OPHI Working Papers 26, University of Oxford. Aversion of this paper is published as ‘Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy’. Econometric Reviews, 32(1): 35–56, 2013.

Lugo, M. A. and Maasoumi, E. (2008, revised 2009). “Multidimensional Poverty Measures from an Information Theory Perspective.” OPHI Working Papers 10, University of Oxford.

OPHI Update March 2009. Link.

OPHI Update April 2009. Link.

OPHI Update May 2009. Link.

OPHI Update June 2009. Link.

OPHI Update July/August 2009. Link.

OPHI Update September 2009. Link.

OPHI Update October 2009. Link.

OPHI Update November 2009. Link.

OPHI Update December 2009. Link.

Santos, M. E. (2009). “Human Capital and the Quality of Education in a Poverty Trap Model.” OPHI Working Papers 30, University of Oxford. Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 39(1) 2011, pp. 25–47.

Seth, S. (2009). “A Class of Association Sensitive Multidimensional Welfare Indices.” OPHI Working Papers 27, University of Oxford. A version of this paper id published in Journal of Economic Inequality, 11(2) (2013) 133–162.

Seth, S. (2009). “Inequality, Interactions, and Human Development.” OPHI Working Papers 23, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 10(3) (2009) 375–396.

Yalonetzky, G. (2009). “A Dissimilarity Index of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity.” OPHI Working Papers 28, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Economic Inequality, 10 (3): 343-373, 2012.

Yalonetzky, G. (2009). “Comparing Economic Mobility with Heterogeneity Indices: An Application to Education in Peru.” OPHI Working Papers 33, University of Oxford.

2008

Alkire, S. (2008). “Choosing Dimensions: The Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty.” In: N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), The Many Dimensions of Poverty. Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, ch. 6.

Alkire, S. (2008). “Concepts and Measures of Agency.” OPHI Working Papers 09, University of Oxford. Also in K. Basu and R. Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen. Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Alkire, S. (2008). “Development: A Misconceived Theory Can Kill.” OPHI Working Papers 11, University of Oxford. Also published in C. W. Morris (ed.), Amartya Sen: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge University Press. 2009, pp. 191-220.

Alkire, S. (2008). “Using the Capability Approach: Prospective and Evaluative Analyses.” In: F. Comim, M. Qizilbash, and S. Alkire (eds.), The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 1.

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. Volume I: Ethics, Welfare and Measurement. Oxford University Press, ch. 24.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). “Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. OPHI Working Papers 07, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). “Recuento y medición multidimensional de la pobreza.” OPHI Working Papers 07, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2008). “Determining BPL Status: Some Methodological Improvements.” Indian Journal of Human Development (IJHD) 2.2 (2008) 407-424.

Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2008). “Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in India: A New Proposal.” OPHI Working Paper 15, University of Oxford. A later version of this paper is published as an OPHI Working Paper 53, and in Social Indicators Research 2013, 122(2): 417-446.

Alkire, S., Qizilbash, M., and Comim, F. (2008). “Introduction.” In: F. Comim, M. Qizilbash, and S. Alkire (eds.), The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–24.

Batana, Y. (2008). “Multidimensional Measurement of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.” OPHI Working Papers 13, University of Oxford. Also published in Social Indicators Research, 112(2) (2013) 337-362.

Comim, F., Qizilbash, M, and Alkire, S. (eds.) (2008). The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Decancq, K. and Lugo, M. A. (2008). “Setting Weights in Multidimensional Indices of Well-Being.” OPHI Working Papers 18, University of Oxford. Published as “Weights in Multidimensional Indices of Wellbeing: An Overview” in Econometric Reviews, 32(1) (2013) 7-34.

Esposito, L. and Chiappero-Martinetti, E. (2008). “Restricted and Unrestricted Hierarchy of Weights.” OPHI Working Papers 22, University of Oxford. Also published as “Multidimensional Poverty: Restricted and Unrestricted Hierarchy among Poverty Dimensions” in Journal of Applied Economics, 13(2) (2010) 181-204.

Fleurbaey, M. (2008). “Willingness-To-Pay and the Equivalent Approach.” OPHI Working Papers 25, University of Oxford. Also published in Revue d’Économie Politique, 121(1) (2011) 35–58.

Fleurbaey, M., Schokkaert, E. and Decancq K. (2008). “What Good is Happiness?” OPHI Working Papers 20, University of Oxford.

Foster, J. and Handy, C. (2008). “External Capabilities.” OPHI Working Papers 08, University of Oxford. Lugo, M. A. and Maasoumi, E. (2008, revised 2009). “Multidimensional Poverty Measures from an Information Theory Perspective.” OPHI Working Papers 10, University of Oxford.

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, ch. 1.

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, University of Oxford.

Santos, M. E. and Ura, K. (2008). “Multidimensional Poverty in Bhutan: Estimates and Policy Implications”. OPHI Working Papers 14, University of Oxford.

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 Papers 24, University of Oxford.

2007

Alkire, S. (2007). “Choosing Dimensions: The Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty.” CPRC Working Paper 88.

Alkire, S. (2007). “A Conceptual Framework for Human Security.” Praxis, 22: 5–31.

Alkire, S. (2007). “Measuring Freedoms alongside Wellbeing.” In: I. Gough and J. A. McGregor (eds.), Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research. Cambridge University Press, ch. 4.

Alkire, S. (2007). “Measuring Agency: Issues and Possibilities.” Indian Journal of Human Development, 1(1): 163–169.

Alkire, S. (2007). “The Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Oxford Development Studies, 35(4): 347-359. Also published as OPHI Working Papers 00, University of Oxford.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). “Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.” OPHI Working Paper 07, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Public Economics 95(7-8) (2011) 476-487.

Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). “Recuento y medición multidimensional de la pobreza.” OPHI Working Paper 07, University of Oxford. [WP]

Alkire, S. and Ritchie, A. (2007). “Winning Ideas: Lessons from Free-Market Economics.” OPHI Working Paper 06, University of Oxford.

Diprose, R. (2007). “Physical Safety and Security: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators of Violence.” Oxford Development Studies, 35(4): 431–458.

Diprose, R. (2007). “Safety and Security: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators of Violence.” OPHI Working Papers 01, University of Oxford. Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 35(4): 431–458.

Ibrahim, S. and Alkire, S. (2007). “Agency and Empowerment: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators.” OPHI Working Papers 04, University of Oxford. Also published in Oxford Development Studies: 35(4): 379–403.

Lugo, M. A. (2007). “Employment: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators.” OPHI Working Papers 02, University of Oxford. Also published in Oxford Development Studies: 35(4): 361–378.

OPHI Update June 2007. Link.

OPHI Update December 2007. Link.

Samman, E. (2007). “Psychological and Subjective Well-Being: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators”. OPHI Working Papers 05, University of Oxford. Also published in Oxford Development Studies, 35(4): 459–486.

Zavaleta, D. (2007). “The Ability to Go about without Shame: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators.” OPHI Working Paper 03, University of Oxford.

Zavaleta, D. (2007). “The Ability to Go about without Shame: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators of Shame and Humiliation.” Oxford Development Studies, 35(4): 405–430.

2006

Alkire, S. (2006). “Public Debate and Value Construction in Sen’s Approach.” In: A. Kaufman (ed.), 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, p 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. Aldershot: Ashgate, ch. 7.

2005

Alkire, S. and Barham, A. (2005). “Supporting the MDGs: A Faith-Based Movement’s Story.” Development 48(1): 122-125.

Alkire, S. (2005). “Needs and Capabilities.” Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 57, Cambridge University Press, 229-252.

Alkire, S. (225). “Subjective Quantitative Studies of Human Agency.” Social Indicators Research, 74(1): 217-260. October, 2005.

Alkire, S. (2005). “Why the Capability Approach?” Journal of Human Development, 6(1): 115-135. March, 2005.

2004

Alkire, S and Chen, L. (2004). “Global Health and Moral Values.” Lancet 364: 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: Stanford University Press, pp. 185-209. [

Alkire, S. (2004). “Concepts of Human Security.” In: L. Chen, S. Fukuda-Parr, and E. Seidensticker (eds.), 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, 35(3): 359–360.

2003

Alkire, S. (2003). “A Conceptual Framework for Human Security.” CRISE Working Paper 02.

2002

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

Alkire, S. (2002). “Dimensions of Human Development.” World Development, 30(2): 181-205.

Alkire, S. (2002). “Global Citizenship and Common Values.” In: N. Dower and J. Williams (eds.), Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 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.), Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?. WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 51-75.

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.) A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies. Volume 1: Core Techniques and Cross-Cutting Issues. World Bank, Washington D.C., ch. 9.

2001

Alkire, S. (2001). “When Responsibilities Conflict.” Studies in Christian Ethics, 14(1): 65–80.

2000

Alkire, S. (2000). “The Basic Dimensions of Human Flourishing: A Comparison of Accounts.” In: N. Biggar and R. Black (eds.), The Revival of Natural Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 73-110.

1997

Alkire, S. and Black, R. (1997). “A Practical Reasoning Theory of Development Ethics: Furthering the Capabilities Approach.” Journal of International Development, 9(2): 263-279.

1994

Alkire, S., Black, R., Clough, D., and Gregory, E. (1994). “This Unemployment: Disaster Or Opportunity?” Theology 97(780): 402-413.

1993

Foster, J. (1993, revised in 2010). “Notes on Effective Freedom.” OPHI Working Papers 34, University of Oxford.

1992

Alkire, S., Khan, Asmatullah, and Sofranko, A. (1992). “Farmers’ Access to Information and its Impact on Technology Adoption in NWFP, Pakistan,” co-author, Journal of Rural Development and Administration, 24(4): 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, University of Oxford.

2024

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.
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.
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.

2023

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

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, 68(S2), pp. S347–S384, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12573.
An earlier version of this paper has been published as OPHI Research in Progress paper No. 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 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.

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., 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.
OPHI Update October 2021.
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).

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 Kanagaratnam, U. (2020). ‘Revisions of the global multidimensional poverty index: Indicator options and their empirical assessment’, Oxford Development Studies, 2020, Vol. 49(2), pp. 169–183.
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.
Evans, M. Nogales, R. and Robson, M. (2020). ‘Monetary and multidimensional poverty: Correlations, mismatches, and joint distributions’, OPHI Working Paper 133, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
This paper is also published in The Journal of Development Studies, 2024, Vol. 60(1), pp. 147–170.
GSS (2020). Multidimensional Poverty – Ghana. Report. Ghana Statistical Service. [National MPI Reports]
INE, UNDP and OPHI (2020). Pobreza Multidimensional em Angola. Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). [National MPI Publications]
Jennings, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Understanding Poverty in Africa’, OPHI Briefing 56, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
OPHI Briefing 56 is also available in French.
Krishnakumar, J. and Nogales, R. (2020). ‘Education, skills and a good job: A multidimensional econometric analysis’, Word Development, 2020, Vol. 128, paper No. 104842.
Krishnakumar, J. and Nogales, R. (2020). ‘Public policies and equality of opportunity for wellbeing in multiple dimensions: A theoretical discussion and evidence from Bolivia’, Social Indicators Research, 2020, Vol. 149, pp. 297–325.
Kunze, L. and Suppa, N. (2020). ‘Who is bowling alone? Quantile treatment effects of unemployment on social participation’, SOEP Papers 1077, 28S, 2020.
Moreno, H. (2020): ‘Income mobility in a changing macroeconomic environment’, OPHI Working Paper 134, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
MPPN (2020). Dimensions No. 9. May 2020.
MPPN (2020). Dimensiones No. 9. Mayo 2020.
MPPN (2020). Dimensions No. 10. August 2020.
MPPN (2020). Dimensiones No. 10. Agosto 2020.
MPPN (2020). Dimensions No. 11. December 2020.
MPPN (2020). Dimensiones No. 11. Diciembre 2020.
NBSM, OPHI and UNICEF Maldives. (2020). National Multidimensional Poverty in Maldives 2020. National Bureau of Statistics, Maldives, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and UNICEF Maldives Country Office. [National MPI Publications]
NBSS, PAD and SMPI Technical Committee (2020). Multidimensional Poverty Index Report 2019: Seychelles, National Bureau of Statistics of Seychelles, The Poverty Alleviation Department of Seychelles and Seychelles MPI Techical Committee, with technical support from Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). [National MPI Publications]
Nogales, R., Cordova, P. and Urquidi, M. (2020). ‘The impact of university reputation on employment opportunities: Experimental evidence from Bolivia’, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 31(4): 524–542.
Olave, M., Nogales, R., Córdova, P., and Rejas, B. (2020). ‘Bolivia: Una nueva mirada al rol de los recursos naturales en el crecimiento económico’, Latin American Research Review, 2020, Vol. 55(1), pp. 81–98.
OPHI Update March 2020.
OPHI Update July 2020.
OPHI Update December 2020.
PCBS (2020). Multi-Dimensional Poverty Profile in Palestine, 2017: Main Results. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, State of Palestine, Ramallah, Palestine. [National MPI Publications]
Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Alkire, S. (2020). ‘How poor are people with disabilities? Evidence based on the global Multidimensional Poverty index’, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2020, Vol. 31(4), pp. 206–216.
Earlier version of this paper is published as OPHI Research in Progress No. 48a (2017).
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.
See also Gordon and Najera, 2019 (reply to Santos and Villatoro).
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 (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.

2019

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.
Case Study 2019. Kari, India.
Daily Outlook Afghanistan. (2019). ‘Half of Afghans Suffer from Multidimensional Poverty: Gov’t.’, DOA, 01 April 2019.
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.
Fernández Arauz, A. (2019). ‘The MPI as a Tool for Achieving Poverty Reduction Goals’, OPHI Policy Briefing 51 (in English), University of Oxford. This Briefing is also available in Spanish and can be downloaded here.
GCTECP. (2019). Voluntary National Reviews for the Sustainable Development Goals: Are Countries Committed to Ending Child Poverty by 2030? Global Coalition to End Child Poverty.
Gordon, D. and Nájera Catalán H.E. (2019). “Reply to Santos and Colleagues ‘The Importance of Reliability in the Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America (MPI-LA)’”, The Journal of Development Studies, 2019, Vol. 56(9), pp. 1790-1794.
See also 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.
Jindra, C. and Vaz, A. (2019). ‘Good governance and multidimensional poverty: A comparative analysis of 71 countries’, Governance, 2019, Vol. 32(4), pp. 657-675.
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.
Also published in World Development, 2021, vol. 137, paper No. 105162.
MPPN. (2019). Dimensions No. 6. April 2019.
MPPN. (2019). Dimensions No. 7. August 2019.
MPPN. (2019). Dimensions No. 8. April 2019.
MPPN. (2019). Dimensiones No. 6. Abril 2019.
MPPN. (2019). Dimensiones No. 7. Agosto 2019.
MPPN. (2019). Dimensiones No. 8. Diciembre 2019.
NESDC and UNICEF-Thailand. (2019). Child Multidimensional Poverty in Thailand. Report. National Economic and Social Development Council (Thailand) and United Nations Children’s Fund in Thailand (UNICEF-Thailand).
Nogales, R. and Cordova, P. (2019). ‘On the advantages and feasibility of weather index-based crop insurance schemes in Bolivia’, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2022, Vol. 58(1), pp. 195–213.
Nogales, R., Córdova, P., and Urquidi, M. (2019). ‘On the relationship between labor market policies and outcomes in Bolivia: A search and matching approach’, Estudios de Economía, 46(1), pp. 61–87.
NSIA and OPHI. (2019). Afghanistan Multidimensional Poverty Index 2016–2017: Report and Analysis. National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). [National MPI Publications]
OPHI Update April 2019.
OPHI Update June 2019.
OPHI Update September 2019.
OPHI Update December 2019.
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.
Seth, S. and Tutor, M. V. (2019). ‘Evaluation of anti-poverty programs’ impact on joint disadvantages: Insights from the Philippine experience’ OPHI Working Paper 132, University of Oxford.
Also published in the Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, Vol. 67(4), pp. 977–1004.
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.
Stats SL, OPHI and UNDP. (2019). Sierra Leone: Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019. Statistics Sierra Leone, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), and UNDP. [National MPI Publications]
The Ministry of Social Development, Government of Chile. (2019). ‘Multidimensional poverty in Chile: Incorporating the environment and social networks into the MPI’, OPHI Briefing 50, University of Oxford.
Tolo News. (2019). ‘Over 18M Afghans Suffer from Multidimensional Poverty: Study’, TOLO News, 31 March 2019.
UNDP and OPHI. (2019). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities. United Nations Development Programme, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
UNDP and OPHI. (2019). How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Using the MPI to Inform the SDGs. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A., and Sraboni, E. (2019). ‘Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh’, OPHI Working Paper 125, University of Oxford.
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.
Vollmer, F., Fisher, J., Ryan, C., Baumert, S., Woollen, E., Luz, A., Cossa, I., Stedham, B., and Smith, H. (2019). Household composition, income and assets survey data (including environmental product collection) from Mabalane, Gurue and Marrupa districts, Mozambique in 2014 and 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre.

2018

Alkire, S. (2018). ‘Multidimensional poverty measures as relevant policy tools’, OPHI Working Paper 118, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
A version of this paper is published in Beck, V., Hahn, H. and Lepenies, R. (eds.), 2020, Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism, Springer, pp. 197–214.
Alkire, S. (2018). ‘The research agenda on multidimensional poverty measurement: Important and as-yet unanswered questions’, OPHI Working Paper 119, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Fang, Y. (2019). ‘Dynamics of multidimensional poverty and uni‐dimensional income poverty: An evidence of stability analysis from China’, Social Indicators Research, 2019, Vol. 142, pp. 25–64.
Alkire, S. and Jahan, S. (2018). ‘The new global MPI 2018: Aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals’, OPHI Working Paper 121, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Jahan, S. (2018). ‘The new Global MPI 2018: Aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals’, 2018 UNDP Human Development Report Office (HDRO) Occasional Paper, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Alkire, S. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2018). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Winter 2017-18: brief methodological note and results’. OPHI MPI Methodological Notes No. 45, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Robson, M. (2018). ‘On data availability for assessing monetary and multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Research in Progress 52a, University of Oxford.
A later version of this paper is published in Development Studies Research, 2022, Vol. 9(1), pp. 277–295.
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2018). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2018 revision’, OPHI MPI Methodological Notes 46, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Oldiges, C. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2018). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Still a long way to go but the poorest are catching up’, OPHI Research in Progress 54a, University of Oxford.
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.
Deneulin, S. and Clausen, J. (2018). ‘Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya Sen: A review essay with reference to development in Peru’. OPHI Working Paper 113, University of Oxford. Also published in Development Policy Review, 2019, Vol. 37(4), pp. 564–578.
Evans, M.C. and Abdurazakov, A. (2018). ‘The measurement properties of multidimensional poverty indices for children: Lessons and ways forward’. OPHI Working Paper 115, University of Oxford.
Fafchamps, M., Vaz, A. and Vicente, P. C. (2018). ‘Voting and peer effects: Experimental evidence from Mozambique’, Economic Development and Cultural Change. [AAM].
Giné-Garriga, R. and Pérez-Foguet, A. (2018). ‘Measuring sanitation poverty: A multidimensional measure to assess delivery of sanitation and hygiene services at the household level’. OPHI Working Paper 116, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published online in Natural Resources Forum, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, 2019, Vol. 43(2), pp. 82–94.
Krishnakumar, J. and Nogales, R. (2018). ‘Demystifying the Use of Simultaneous Equation Models for Operationalising the Capability Approach’, in F. Comim, S. Fennell and P.B. Anand (eds.), New Frontiers of the Capability Approach, part II The Operationalisation Frontier, ch. 11. Cambridge University Press.
Kunze, L. and Suppa, N. (2018). ‘The effect of unemployment on social participation of spouses – Evidence from plant closures in Germany’, Empirical Economics, 2018, Vol. 58, pp. 815–833.
Malaeb, B. and Uzor, E. (2018). ‘Multidimensional impact evaluation: A randomized control trial on conflict-affected women in Northern Uganda’, paper given at CSAE Conference 2018.
Milovich, J. Y. (2018). ‘Does aid reduce poverty?’, OPHI Working Paper 122, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Mitchell, A. and Macció, J. (2018). ‘Evaluating the effects of housing interventions on multidimensional poverty: The case of TECHO-Argentina’, OPHI Working Paper 120, University of Oxford.
Also published in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2021, Vol. 22(3), pp. 379-402.
Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de Chile. (2018). ‘Pobreza multidimensional en Chile: Incorporación de Entorno y Redes’. OPHI Briefing 50, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
MPPN. (2018). Dimensions. Special issue: OPHI 10th Anniversary. English issue. Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN).
MPPN. (2018). Dimensiones. Edición Especial: OPHI 10º Aniversario. Spanish issue. Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN).
MPPN. (2018). Dimensions, No. 5. Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN).
MPPN. (2018). Dimensiones, Número 5. Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN).
NPC and OPHI (2018). Nepal: Multidimensional Poverty Index 2018 – Analysis towards action. National Planning Commission (NPC) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. [National MPI Publications]
OPHI (2018). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2018: The Most Detailed Picture to Date of the World’s Poorest People. Report. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. ISBN 978-1-912291-12-0.
The Introduction and ch. 1, and ch. 4 are also available in Chinese and can be downloaded from the global MPI 2018 report page.
OPHI Update February 2018.
OPHI Update May 2018.
OPHI Update August 2018.
OPHI Update December 2018.
Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Alkire, S. (2018). ‘Statistical note: Disaggregating Bhutan’s MPI 2017 by disability status’, OPHI Research in Progress 51a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
PRESS RELEASE. Angola MPI. ‘New numbers show 48% of people in Angola are poor’. January 2018.
Samuel, K., Alkire, S., Zavaleta, D., Mills, C. and Hammock, J. (2018). ‘Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty’, Oxford Development Studies, 2018, Vol. 46(1), pp. 83–97.
Former OPHI Working Paper 80 (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.
Suppa, N. (2018). ‘Towards a multidimensional poverty index for Germany’, Empirica, 2018, Vol. 45, pp. 655–683.
Former OPHI Working Paper 98 (2015).
Suppa, N. (2018). ‘Transitions in poverty and its deprivations: an analysis of multidimensional poverty dynamics’, Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, Vol. 51, pp. 235–258.
Former OPHI Working Paper 109.
Suppa, N. (2018): ‘Walls of glass: measuring deprivation in social participation’, OPHI Working Paper 117, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Former OPHI Research in Progress paper No. 49a (2017).
Thiry, G., Alkire, S. and Schleicher, J. (2018). ‘Incorporating environmental and natural resources within analyses of multidimensional poverty’. OPHI Research in Progress 50a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A. and Sraboni, E. (2018). ‘Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh’, Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 2018, Vol. 25(2), pp. 25–51.
Former OPHI Working Paper 125.
Vollmer, F. and Alkire, S. (2018). ‘Towards a global asset indicator: Re-assessing the asset indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI Research in Progress 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
A later version is published in the World Development, 2022, Vol. 158, paper No. 105997.
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.

2017

Alkire, S. and Apablaza, M. (2017). ‘Multidimensional poverty in Europe 2006–2012: Illustrating a methodology’, in Atkinson, A., Guio, A.-C. and Marlier, E. (eds.), Monitoring Social Inclusion in Europe. 2017 edition. Eurostat, ch. 12 (pp. 225–240).
Also published as OPHI Working Paper 74 (2016).
Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2017). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017’, OPHI Briefing 47, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2017). ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017’ (2-page briefing), OPHI Briefing 48, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2017). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Summer 2017: Brief methodological note and results.’ MPI Methodological Notes 44, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford
Alkire, S. and Shen, Y. (2017). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty in China: 2010 to 2014’, OPHI Research in Progress 47a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Also published in Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare (ed. by J. Bishop), 2017, Vol. 2, pp. 161–228.
Alkire, S. and Shen, Y. (2017). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty in China: 2010 to 2014’, Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare (ed. by J. Bishop), 2017, Vol. 25, pp. 161–228.
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.
OPHI Update January 2017.
OPHI Update March 2017.
OPHI Update June 2017.
OPHI Update August 2017.
OPHI Update November 2017.
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.

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.
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.
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.
OPHI Update February 2016.
OPHI Update April 2016.
OPHI Update June 2016.
OPHI Update August 2016.
OPHI Update October 2016.
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.
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