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Job Title: Research Associate Contact Details: Institute of Development Studies,University of Sussex,Brighton,BN1 9RE,UK e.samman@ids.ac.uk |
Biography
Emma Samman has worked on OPHI’s Missing Dimensions of Poverty research theme since April 2007. Her current research interests are in survey design, multidimensional poverty assessment, human development and the use of subjective data in research and policy. She has also worked on the socio-economic effects of market development and the effects of space (and segregation) upon wellbeing. She has field experience in Chile and in Vietnam.
Education
2007 D.Phil. in Development Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Thesis: The spatial distribution of income and poverty, and its socio-economic effects in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile, 1990-2003
1995 M.Sc. in Economic History, London School of Economics, UK
1993 B.A. in Political Science, Swarthmore College, U.S.A.
Selected Publications
Samman, E., M. MacLachlan and E. McAulish (2008), “The role of celebrity in international poverty reduction”, International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 12, p. 1-12.
Samman, E. (2007), “Psychological and subjective wellbeing: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators”, Oxford Development Studies 35:4, p. 459-486.
Stewart, F., G. Ranis and E. Samman (2007), “Human Development: Alternative Country Choices”, Forthcoming in K. Basu and R. Kanbur (Eds.), Welfare, Development, Philosophy and Social Science: Essays for Amartya Sen’s 75th Birthday, Oxford: OUP.
Ranis, G., F. Stewart and E. Samman (2006), “Human Development: Beyond the Human Development Index”, Journal of Human Development 7:3, p. 323-58.
Samman, E. (2004), “Openness and growth: An empirical investigation”, Human Development Report Office Occasional Paper 22, New York: UNDP.
Samman, E. (2004), “Gini Coefficients for Subsidy Distribution in Agriculture”, Human Development Report Office Occasional Paper 35. New York: UNDP.
“Agencia de los padres y logros de los hijos: Explorando el caso de America Latina,” with Maria Emma Santos and Gaston Yalonetzky. OPHI Research in Progress 12.
“Agency and Empowerment: A review of concepts, indicators and empirical evidence,” with Maria Emma Santos. OPHI Research in Progress 10.
Link to Website
Link to Samman’s profile at Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
