Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative workshop on Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics 16 November 2011 University of Oxford 9:00 – 9:30 Welcome & coffee 9:30 – 9:50 Introduction to the workshop by Sabina Alkire and Gaston Yalonetzky 9::50-10:50 Session 1 ‘Measuring the dynamics of multiple deprivations among children: the cases of Andhra Pradesh, Ethiopia, Peru [...]
Multidimensional poverty analysis – applications for human development and social inclusion monitoring This event has now passed, but you can watch the discussion online here June 20, 2011, 9am-6pm BST Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford and broadcast live online To mark the launch of a new UNDP Regional Human Development Report [...]
The Poverty and Inequality Measurement and Analysis Practice Group August 30th, 2010, World Bank, Washington DC Poverty is multidimensional, and the Bank’s work reflects the importance of addressing the different dimensions of poverty. But, when talking about measurement , researchers and practitioners ask, Should we try to aggregate all the different dimensions of poverty in [...]
University of Oxford, May 29 – 1 June 2007 These workshops launched OPHI’s research themes on the ‘Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data‘ and ‘Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons‘. Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data This topic was proposed by a research workshop in May 2006, which observed that research is deeply affected by the lack of internationally comparable [...]
14-16 June 2010, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK OPHI’s workshop on new methods and research directions in multidimensional poverty and inequality discussed innovative new techniques to measure multiple dimensions of life. Participants included senior academics, students and representatives from international agencies. The workshop was co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme [...]
OPHI held its first workshop with high-level policymakers from Latin America on 14/ 15 October in Montevideo, Uruguay. The aim was to assess the policy implications of OPHI’s work on the “missing dimensions” of human development. Participants from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Inter American Development Bank engaged in dynamic discussions over the [...]
Oxford 28-31 March 2007 OPHI convened a four-day workshop in March 2007 on educational material for human development, to discuss course design and curriculum, pedagogical approaches to teaching human development, virtual learning spaces, textbooks and other teaching materials. The meeting took place in Oxford. This was the first OPHI meeting of academics teaching or wishing [...]
Programme One page overview of workshop A great deal of attention has focused on empirical studies related to multidimensional poverty. These could be conceived of as the measurement of functionings. Considerably less attention has been applied to empirical measures of capabilities and opportunity freedoms. Measures of process freedoms such as empowerment and political freedom have [...]
In constructing multidimensional poverty measures, it is possible to apply weights a) in aggregating variables within one dimension; b) in aggregating across dimensions; c) in aggregating across people. At each point of aggregation, we need to determine the parameters that define the marginal contribution of each indicator, dimension, or individual to the overall well-being (or [...]
Multidimensional Poverty Measures – Preliminary Explorations, 16 June 2008 Open Dialogue with OPHI, 16 June 2008 This paper contains powerpoints and papers that apply multidimensional poverty measurement in different contexts Most countries of the world define poverty by income. Yet poor people themselves define their poverty much more broadly—to include lack of education, health, empowerment, [...]