Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative

Oxford Department of International Development

Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

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OPHI Workshop on Robustness Methods for Multidimensional Welfare Analysis, 5-6 May 2009

Workshop programme Participant biographies The goal of this OPHI workshop is to identify and discuss specific areas for research aimed at developing stronger methodologies of robustness for multidimensional well-being analysis. Special emphasis is given to stochastic dominance techniques. The sessions will survey how various methods have been applied in the literature, and identify strengths and [...]

OPHI Workshop on Multidimensional Measures in Six Contexts, 1-2 June 2009

Workshop summary, selected papers and presentations Workshop programme [pdf] Getting to Oxford, getting to OPHI [pdf] Practical information [pdf] Participant biographies [pdf] Spaces are extremely limited so resources from this workshop will be made available on this webpage. We encourage comments and suggestions by email. Multidimensional measures aggregate information on diverse attributes into a common [...]

OPHI Workshop on ‘Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data’, 16th Aug 2009

Durban, 16 August, 2009 On 16 August, OPHI conducted a workshop on the Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data in Durban, South Africa prior to the opening of the 57th session of the International Statistics Institute (ISI). The ISI has as its objective ‘to promote the understanding, development, and good practice of statistics worldwide’ and assembled [...]