OPHI Previous Events
Many OPHI events are available to watch or listen to online. See the Podcasts page for videos and audio recordings of OPHI events.
26 November 2012
Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India, 1998/9 to 2005/6: Where and How?
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House
Suman Seth, Research Officer, OPHI
21 November 2012
Research Workshop | Dynamic Comparison between Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty
Oxford
This Oxford workshop was held jointly by OPHI and Stephan Klasen, Professor of Development Economics and Empirical Economic Research at the University of Göttingen. Invited researchers presented their comparisons of monetary poverty and multidimensional poverty in different countries, including Iraq, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Venezuela, Peru, South Africa, Indonesia and Uganda.
19 November 2012
Social Connectedness: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators on Subjective Social Isolation
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House
Diego Zavaleta, Research Officer, OPH
12 November 2012
Measuring Chronic Multidimensional Poverty: A Counting Approach
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House
Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
05 November 2012
Chronic & Transient Multidimensional Poverty in Indonesia: An Analysis of the Causal Factors & Economic Drivers Characterising Poverty Reduction
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House
Paola Ballon Fernandez, Research Officer, OPHI
29 October 2012
Pro-Poor Public Policies: Income and Multidimensional Poverty in Chile
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Mauricio Apablaza, Research Officer, OPHI
22 October 2012
How Successful are Countries in Reducing Multidimensional Poverty?: Insights from an Inter-Temporal Analysis in Twenty Countries
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Jose Manuel Roche, Research Officer, OPHI
12 October 2012
Endogenous Poverty Line: Existence and Implications
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Indranil Dutta, BWPI Lecturer in Economics, University of Manchester
08 October 2012
An Introduction to OPHI
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
28 August 2012
Summer School 2012 on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
Jakarta, Indonesia
The 2012 OPHI-HDCA two-week training course on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 23 August – 4 September 2012. It brought together a vibrant mix of people to learn about multidimensional poverty measurement and the capability approach. It also provided an introduction on how to implement a national or organisational Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
28 June 2012
Research workshop ~Value Judgements in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Design
Oxford
On 28-29 June, OPHI will hold a small intensive workshop with philosophers and economists to discuss the value judgements that arise in designing official measures of multidimensional poverty, such as the choice of indicators, cutoffs and weights. The possibility of coordinating insights from statistical, deliberative, political and normative reasoning will also be discussed.
07 June 2012
Bi-Polarization and the Middle Class in Latin America ~ Professor Jacques Silber
Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford
Professor Silber will present new work on inequality in Latin America (2000–2009), at this joint seminar, organised by OPHI and the Department of Economics. Chaired by Sir Tony Atkinson, the special seminar will be broadcast live. Drinks and pizza will follow.
30 April 2012
New Frontiers in Poverty Measurement
Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, Oxford.
At this special seminar co-hosted by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Professor James E. Foster will speak on:
New Frontiers in Poverty Measurement.
The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception. All welcome.
05 March 2012
Poverty as Lack of Autonomy: A Definition and Empirical Illustration
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Sebastian Silva-Leander, OPHI Research Officer
01 March 2012
Multidimensional Poverty in Southeast Asia
Seminar Room 2, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road
Dr. Suman Seth, OPHI Research Officer
27 February 2012
A Structural Model of Female Empowerment
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Paola Ballon, OPHI Research Officer
27 February 2012
Measurement Error in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Paola Ballón, OPHI Research Officer (joint work with Yadira Diaz, PhD candidate Essex University and OPHI Visiting Student)
20 February 2012
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director (presenting a joint project of OPHI, USAID and Feed the Future, and the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington).
13 February 2012
Multidimensional Inequality Indices for Ordinal Data
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Martyna Kobus, University of Warsaw
06 February 2012
The Gross National Happiness Index of Bhutan
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director (joint work with the Centre for Bhutan Studies)
02 February 2012
Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Tailoring Applications to Context and Age Groups
Seminar Room Wolsey Hall, 66 Banbury Road
Jose Manuel Roche, OPHI Research Officer presenting at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing.
30 January 2012
Sub-national Disparities and Inter-temporal Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty Across Developing Countries
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Suman Seth, OPHI Research Officer (joint work with Sabina Alkire and José Manuel Roche, OPHI)
23 January 2012
Temporal Mapping of Poverty Using Synthetic Panel Data
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Nicholas Ruiz, OECD (joint work with Peter Lanjouw, World Bank)
21 November 2011
Vulnerability to Individual Poverty and Vulnerability to Aggregate Poverty (joint work with Stefan Dercon)
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH)
Cesar Calvo, Director, Economics and Finance Program, Universidad de Piura, Peru
14 November 2011
Contribution of Increased Life Expectancy to Living Standards
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH)
Markus Haacker, Academic Visitor at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
07 November 2011
Conditions for the Most Robust Poverty Comparisons Using Counting Measures
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH)
Gaston Yalonetzky, Lecturer in Economics, Leeds University Business School and OPHI Research Associate
31 October 2011
Identifying Below Poverty Line (BPL) Households in India: A Comparison of Methods
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH)
Suman Seth, Research Officer, OPHI
24 October 2011
Beyond Headcount: Measures that Reflect the Breadth and Components of Child Poverty
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH)
Jose Manuel Roche, Research Officer, OPHI
17 October 2011
Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011: New Country Results, Changes Over Time and Sub-national Decompositions
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH)
Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
10 October 2011
Introduction to OPHI
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH)
OPHI Researchers and Communications Team
20 June 2011
Multidimensional Poverty in Venezuela, OPHI Lunchtime Seminar
Oxford
On Monday 20 June César Gallo, Central University of Venezuela and Jose Manuel Roche, OPHI, will speak at the OPHI lunchtime seminar series on "Multidimensional Poverty in Venezuela during 1997 - 2010: A proposal for a nationally adapted measure for monitoring purposes". The seminar, taking place 1-2pm, will be in Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford. Complimentary sandwich lunch available (first come, first served). All welcome.
20 June 2011
OPHI and UNDP Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty Analysis
Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
This event has now passed, but you can watch the discussion online here
To mark the launch of a new UNDP Regional Human Development Report for Europe and CIS, “Beyond Transition, Towards Inclusive Societies”, this one-day workshop – which you can watch live online - will bring together researchers, practitioners and other interested parties to discuss multidimensional poverty, social exclusion and human development. The new report ,prepared by UNDP's Regional Office for Europe and CIS on regional social exclusion, will be a starting point for a broader discussion of how individual countries can use multidimensional methodologies, the possible entry points for individual governments and how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), developed by OPHI, relates to other measures. read more ...
13 June 2011
Validating agency data, OPHI Lunchtime Seminar
Oxford
On Monday 13 of June Cecilia Tinonin, University of Bologna, will speak at the OPHI lunchtime seminar series on "Constructing validation for agency data: A micro-case study from a field of one's own and others". The seminar, taking place 1-2pm, will be in Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford. Complimentary sandwich lunch available (first come, first served). All welcome.
06 June 2011
Revealed preferences and Amartya Sen, OPHI Lunchtime Seminar
On Monday 6 June Sebastian Silva-Leander, OPHI, will speak on "Revealed preferences in Amartya Sen’s framework". Seminar Room 3, 1-2pm, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford. Complimentary sandwich lunch available (first come, first served). All welcome.
24 May 2011
Tracking Poverty and Gender Equity, OPHI Lunchtime Seminar
On Tuesday 24 May Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, University of Yale, will speak on "Tracking Poverty and Gender Equity". Seminar Room 3, 1-2pm, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford. Complimentary sandwich lunch available (first come, first served). All welcome.
19 May 2011
Economics, Business Development and Metrics: The Global Peace Index
Oxford
OPHI Special Lecture by Steve Killelea
Steve Killelea is an Australian entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of The Global Peace Index and the Institute for Economics and Peace. At this OPHI-hosted talk he will discuss The Global Peace Index which aims to measure the peacefulness of countries and identify drivers of peace. He will also outline the role he envisages for the business community in creating peaceful societies. Developed in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, the index looks at internal factors such as levels of violence and crime within a country and factors in a country's external relations such as military expenditure and wars.
Location: Thursday 19th May, 5pm, Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
16 May 2011
Redundancy and the Human Development Index, OPHI Lunchtime Seminar
On Monday 16 May Suman Seth, OPHI Research Officer, will speak on "What explains the redundancy of the Human Development Index?". Seminar Room 3, 1-2pm, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford. Complimentary sandwich lunch available (first come, first served). All welcome.
09 May 2011
Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty, OPHI Lunchtime Seminar
Oxford
On Monday 9 May Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI, will speak on "Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty (new paper, co-authored with James Foster)". Seminar Room 3, 1-2pm, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford. Complimentary sandwich lunch available (first come, first served). All welcome.
28 February 2011
Concepts, Measurement and Policy Implications
Oxford, UK
This joint OPHI and UNDP course offers a policy-oriented introduction to key human development concepts, measures and analytical tools, and explores the innovative aspects of the 2010 Human Development Report. The 60 participants include UNDP staff from around the globe, as well as representatives from National Governments.
02 December 2010
A New Tool to Fight Poverty: Understanding the Multidimensional Needs of People Living in Poverty
Oxford University North American Office
Discussion by Dr. Sabina Alkire
In July 2010, the United Nations Development Programme and OPHI released a new poverty measure developed by Sabina Alkire with Maria Emma Santos. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is the first measure to reflect the multiple deprivations that batter poor people at the same time. It provides a high resolution lens into the extent and composition of multidimensional poverty and forms a sound complement to income poverty measures. Immediately upon its launch, the MPI generated much media interest and gave rise to vigorous blog exchanges and policy dialogues.
The Economist, July 29th, 2010:
“Despite the many merits of the $1-a-day measure –not least its simplicity– some argue that looking only at income risks impoverishing the debate about poverty...A new set of internationally comparable data put together by researchers at the OPHI at the University of Oxford tried to take Mr. Sen’s ideas about “the need for a multi¬dimensional view of poverty and deprivation” seriously...the principles on which the MPI is based are simple and easily adapted.”
29 November 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Poverty Severity in a Multidimensional Framework: The Neglected Issue of Inequality between Dimensions
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Department of International Development
Nicole Rippin (German Development Institute, University of Göttingen)
24 November 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: On the Determinants of Happiness in Chile
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Department of International Development
Rodrigo Montero, (Universidad Diego Portales)
19 November 2010
OPHI Special Seminar: Missing Dimensions of Poverty in the Philippines
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Deparment of International Development
Celia Reyes (Community Based Monitoring System, Philippines)
15 November 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Re-thinking Gender Development Measurement in Human Development Index: the Case of Developed Economies
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Deparment of International Development
Anna Myunghee Kim, (Institute for the Study of Labor - IZA)
08 November 2010
The Measurement of Multidimensional and Inter-temporal Poverty: Same Toolkit?
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Suman Seth, (OPHI)
05 November 2010
'Values & Measurement of Poverty: the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)'
Robert Runcie room, Church House, Westminster, London
OPHI is holding a panel on the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a new international measure of poverty developed by OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report, at the Annual Development Studies Association Conference on Friday 5 November at Church House, London
The panel follows the global launch of the 20th anniversary Human Development Report on 4 November, in which the MPI features. Sabina Alkire will present the MPI and Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, and Séverine Deneulin, lecturer in international development at the University of Bath will be discussants. The session will be chaired by Michael Hubbard, Reader in Development Economics at the University of Birmingham.
01 November 2010
Conditions for the Most Robust Poverty Comparisons Using the Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Measures
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Gaston Yalonetzky, (OPHI)
25 October 2010
Unidimensional and Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability in Chile
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Claudia Sanhueza, (Universidad Alberto Hurtado)
19 October 2010
Multidimensional Poverty Index in Practice
Richard Doll Lecture Theatre, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford
Health Economics Research Centre Seminar, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford
Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director
11 October 2010
Multidimensional Poverty Index and the 2010 UNDP Human Development Report
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Sabina Alkire, (OPHI)
21 September 2010
2010 Conference of the HDCA: Human Rights and Human Developments
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
The 2010 Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association on Human Rights and Human Developments will be hosted by the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan.
11 September 2010
OPHI Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty 2010
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Organised by OPHI with the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA)
University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, 11 September – 20 September 2010
The purpose of this intensive summer school is to provide a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to current literature and techniques of measuring and comparing capabilities, drawing on various techniques of multidimensional measurement and of statistical analysis.
28 July 2010
International Seminar on New Techniques for Measuring Poverty, Wellbeing and Inequality of Opportunity
Bogota, Colombia
The Colombian Ministry of Planning, Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP), in collaboration with the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and OPHI will hold an international seminar on new techniques for measuring poverty, wellbeing and inequality of opportunity on 28-29 July in Bogota, Colombia. The seminar will be opened by Esteban Piedrahita, the Director General of DNP, Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director, David Rosemberg, Lead Economist at the World Bank and Juan Carlos Ramírez, Director ECLAC Colombia. For more information on the International Seminar and links to relevant materials, please see the Departamento Nacional de Planeación's website.
08 July 2010
Multidimensional Measurement and Analysis of Poverty and Progress in the Next Decade
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
4th ESRC Research Methods Festival
OPHI’s Sabina Alkire is presenting on poverty and progress in the next decade in a panel at the 4th ESRC Research Methods Festival, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford on Thursday 8 July at 11am.
02 July 2010
How Can Academics Have More Impact on Global Poverty?
University of the West of England, Bristol (UK)
Academics Stand Against Poverty are hosting this event on 2 July 2010, from 1.30-3pm, at the Third Biennial International Global Ethics Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol (UK). The panel includes Sabina Alkire (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Thomas Pogge (Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University), and Paula Casal (Research Professor at ICREA (the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies)).
Many academics believe that the better-off citizens and states of the world are morally required to do much more than they are currently doing to end global poverty. Is there anything that we can do that would be likely to help stimulate such action, anything that we are not currently doing? Is there anything we can do as academics, in particular, using our distinctive roles and skills? If there are a range of different activities that we could do to further this end, which of those activities are likely to be most successful? For further information on this event see the conference website.
14 June 2010
OPHI Special Lecture by Professor François Bourguignon
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road
Multidimensional Inequality Measurement and the Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index
François Bourguignon is Director of the Paris School of Economics and Director of d'études à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences socials. He served as Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2003-2007 and holds doctorates from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and University of Orleans, France.
12 June 2010
OPHI Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality: New Methods and Research Directions
Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
07 June 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Measuring Group Disadvantage with Probabilities
Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House
Gaston Yalonetzky (OPHI)
04 June 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: The Capability Approach and Comparisons of Well-being Among Pensioners in UK
Seminar Room 3
Lucas Pedace (HM Treasury)
24 May 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Understanding Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chile
Seminar Room 3
Mauricio Apablaza (University of Nottingham and OPHI Visiting Student)
17 May 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: A Multidimensional Analysis of Workers' Capabilities in the context of the Chilean Labour Market
Seminar Room 3
Kirsten Sehnbruch (Universidad de Chile)
13 May 2010
International Conference on Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America
Raúl Prebisch Conference Hall, Santiago, Chile
OPHI is teaming up with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Chilean Government’s Ministry of Planning (MIDEPLAN) and the Foundation for Overcoming Poverty (FSP) to organise an international conference ‘Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America’, to be closed by the President of Chile.More...
10 May 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Relative or Absolute: The Dynamics of the Gini
Seminar Room 3
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (University of Birmingham and London School of Economics)
26 April 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: The Sarkozy Commission Recommendations and the Future for Measurement of Non Market Output
Meeting Room A
Matthew Powell (Senior Consultant, Oxford Policy Management) and Mark Chandler (UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity, Office of National Statistics)
12 March 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Measuring Multidimensional Poverty for the 2010 HDR: Preliminary Results
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Sabina Alkire (OPHI)
01 March 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Understanding the Structure of Group Inequalities: Examining the Capability Approach from a Sociological Perspective
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
José Manuel Roche (OPHI)
22 February 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: A New Class of Inter-Temporal Poverty Measures
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Laurence Roope (School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester)
15 February 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: On Chronic Poverty, Time and Human Rights
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Yishai Mishor (Oxford Faculty of Law)
08 February 2010
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: The Road Not Taken: Why Some Indicators Were Excluded from OPHI's Multidimensional Poverty Index
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Karin Eli (OPHI)
28 January 2010
Lecture at IDS, Sussex: Rephrasing Human Development for the 2010 HDR
IDS, Sussex
Listen to Sabina Alkire's lecture at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton on 28 January. Sabina discussed how a new concept of human development is being formulated for the 2010 Human Development Report (HDR). Since 1990, many have described human development as 'enlarging people's choices'. But that leaves out people's voice and agency; it ignores the environment and it is blind to inequality (whose choices matter most?). The twentieth anniversary edition of the HDR will propose a new concept of human development, which includes capabilities, processes, and agency as integral parts of development, and observes that we share the same planet. To read about how you can contribute, click here. A podcast of the lecture is available on the IDS website.
23 November 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: The Effect of Income Inequality on Consumer Prices
Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House
Babak Somekh (Oxford Department of Economics)
19 November 2009
Oxford Events with Amartya Sen
University of Oxford, UK
OPHI organised several events with Amartya Sen, Harvard University Professor and Advisor to OPHI, in Oxford on 19-20 November. Sen spoke at a Roundtable on Economics with politicians, academics and policy makers, and delivered a lecture on The Pursuit of Justice which was chaired by the Chancellor of the University on 19 November. These events were followed by a Philosophy Seminar with Sen and several distinguished speakers on 20 November.
16 November 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: On Time, Chronic Poverty and Human Rights
Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House
Yishai Mishor (Oxford Faculty of Law)
09 November 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: An International Multidimensional Poverty Index: Progress to Date on the 2010 HDR
Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House
Sabina Alkire (OPHI)
26 October 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Inequality of Opportunity in India
Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House
Gaston Yalonetzky (OPHI)
19 October 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Inequality in Multiple Dimensions of Wellbeing
Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House
Emma Samman (OPHI/IDS)
28 August 2009
Special Seminar
Francisco Ferreira (World Bank), 'Inequality of economic opportunity in Latin America'.
27 August 2009
HDCA Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
Catholic University, Lima, Peru
The purpose of this intensive summer school was to provide a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to current quantitative literature and techniques of measuring and comparing capabilities, drawing on various techniques of multidimensional measurement and of statistical analysis.
16 August 2009
OPHI Workshop on Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data
Durban
OPHI held a workshop on ‘Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data’ immediately preceding the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute in Durban, South Africa on 16 August, 2009. The workshop presented OPHI’s survey modules on violence, empowerment, decent work, dignity, and subjective well-being, its findings on the added value of these data, and how the Missing Dimensions agenda might inform poverty reduction efforts. More...
17 June 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries
Meeting Room A, Garden Floor, QEH
Maria Emma Santos (OPHI)
10 June 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: A Class of Multidimensional Poverty Measures Sensitive to the Breadth of Deprivations
Meeting Room A, Garden Floor, QEH
Sabina Alkire (OPHI) and James Foster (OPHI/Vanderbilt)
03 June 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Assessing Rank Robustness of Multidimensional Welfare Indicators with Intergroup Concordance Tests
Meeting Room A, Garden Floor, QEH
Gaston Yalonetzky (OPHI)
01 June 2009
OPHI Workshop on Multidimensional Measures in Six Contexts
Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
OPHI’s June 2009 small, high-level research workshop examined several multidimensional measures used in six specific contexts - including the multidimensional poverty methodology developed by OPHI - to critically compare them, identify commonalities, advantages and disadvantages of different methodologies, and isolated shared weaknesses for which new methodologies should be developed. The six contexts were: quality of education, child and youth poverty, governance and political freedom, fair trade, gender, and targeting of social programmes. More...
28 May 2009
‘Distribution and Development’ – course with James Foster, May–June 2009
Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
James Foster, a Research Associate who will be at OPHI in Trinity Term 2009, presented a course comprising eight classes on ‘Distribution and Development’. The course was aimed at PPE or postgraduate economics students with an interest in poverty, inequality, and economic development.
27 May 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Measuring Health Inequality
Meeting Room A, Garden Floor, QEH
James Foster (OPHI and Vanderbilt)
20 May 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: Dominance Curves and Multidimensional Poverty Analysis with Ordinal Data
Meeting Room B, Library Wing, QEH
Casilda Lasso de la Vega (University of the Basque Country)
19 May 2009
Book launch 'Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up', by Deepa Narayan
Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development (QEH)
Poverty studies typically focus on people who live below the poverty line. Few studies have examined how people not only move out of poverty but also stay out of poverty. A follow-up to the Voices of the Poor, the second volume of the Moving Out of Poverty project, Success from the Bottom Up represents one of the few large-scale comparative research attempts to address these questions. The book is coauthored by Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor and it is based on life stories, interviews, and questionnaires with more than 60,000 people in Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.
“This book...is an important resource for everyone who's working to alleviate poverty”.–Former President Bill Clinton.
Speaker: Deepa Narayan
Chair: Sabina Alkire
Announcement [pdf]
13 May 2009
OPHI Lunchtime Seminar: A Class of Association Sensitive Multidimensional Welfare Indices
Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House
Suman Seth (Vanderbilt)
07 May 2009
Gordon Anderson presents Distinguished Visitor Lecture on Development
Seminar Room 2, Dept of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford
Professor Anderson presented the ‘Poor Country-Rich Country Convergence or Polarization in Lifetime Wellbeing: Africa and the Rest’.
Gordon Anderson is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from London School of Economics; awarded both the Bowley Prize for work in applied statistics by the LSE, and the Sayers Prize for work in money and macroeconomics by the University of London. Initially trained as an applied time series econometrician his interest in recent years has turned to issues in empirical welfare analysis in the form of making inferences about well-being, poverty, inequality, mobility, and polarization.
05 May 2009
OPHI Workshop on Robustness Methods for Multidimensional Welfare Analysis
Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
The goal of this OPHI workshop was to identify and discuss specific areas for research aimed at developing stronger methodologies of robustness for multidimensional well-being analysis. Special emphasis was given to stochastic dominance techniques. The sessions surveyed how various methods have been applied in the literature, and identify strengths and weaknesses of the techniques and discuss potential further developments. More...
25 March 2009
OPHI Contributes to the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
04 March 2009
OPHI Training for PEP survey teams from Nigeria, Chad and Sri Lanka
Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Network Annual Meeting, Manila
Between 4 and 25 March 2009, OPHI staff in Oxford conducted a training course on survey design, implementation and analysis for representatives of three successful teams that were awarded grants by OPHI and the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) network at the PEP annual meeting in Manila, December 2008. The three teams used these grants to implement OPHI's survey modules in parts of Chad, Nigeria and Sri Lanka, respectively, both to generate data on the Missing Dimensions and also to investigate the validity of the survey instruments in their particular countries. The course aimed to familiarize the participants with academic research on survey design. It also provided support to the participants' design of an integrated questionnaire, guidelines for implementation, Access database, as well as the identification of key research questions and strategies for data tabulation and analysis - all of which they can draw upon when implementing the survey in their own countries.
01 January 2009
Course on human development for masters' students at QEH: Hilary 2009
14 October 2008
OPHI Workshop on Policy: Uruguay Round
Montevideo, Uruguay.
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. More...
11 September 2008
2008 Conference of the HDCA: "Equality, Inclusion and Human Development"
New Delhi, India
OPHI researchers organised a panel on multidimensional poverty in the 2008 HDCA Annual Conference held on 11-13 September in New Delhi, India. The event, hosted by the Institute of Human Development, featured keynote speakers such as Jean Dreze, Frances Stewart, Martha Nussbaum, James Foster, and Niraja Gopal Jayal. learn more...
28 August 2008
Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
New Delhi, India
OPHI and HDCP-IRC co-organised the HDCA Summer School in New Delhi, India 28 August - 9 September 2008. The intensive summer school provided a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to current literature and techniques of measuring and comparing capabilities. The course materials include powerpoints, problem sets (both conceptual and in stata), problem solutions, and videos of lectures.
17 June 2008
Seminar "Inequality of economic opportunity in Latin America"
Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building,University of Oxford
Francisco Ferreira (World Bank) "Inequality of economic opportunity in Latin America"
16 June 2008
OPHI OPEN DIALOGUE DAY
Seminar Room 2, Dept of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford
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, employment, personal security and more. Do these differences matter? OPHI researchers presented results of work in progress on Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, China, India, and Bhutan. In each of these cases, OPHI researchers use existing data to compare income poverty with a new multidimensional poverty measure (Alkire & Foster Working Paper 7) and explore the value added. More...
12 June 2008
Seminar "Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Methods. The Latin American tradition and the Mexican Experience"
Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development (QEH)
Julio Boltvinik and Araceli Damian (Colegio de Mexico)
28 May 2008
OPHI Workshop on Measuring Freedoms
Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
A great deal of attention has focused on empirical studies related to multidimensional poverty. The overall goal of OPHI’s May workshop was to identify the theoretical strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches to measuring freedoms, to clarify which techniques are most suited for empirical studies, and to chart concrete directions for future research. More...
26 May 2008
OPHI Workshop on Weighting in Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Oxford, UK (Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
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 deprivation), taking into consideration also the possible interconnections among them. OPHI’s May 2008 workshop considered a number of techniques to set weights for multidimensional measures. More...
15 May 2008
Seminar. James Foster "Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measures"
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1.
Prof Foster presented his paper with Sabina Alkire (2008): "Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measures," OPHI Working Paper 7
03 November 2007
OPHI team to launch Missing Dimensions research theme
Beijing
The Center for Human and Economic Development (CHEDS) of Peking University hosted an international workshop on “Dimensions and Indicators of Human Development” on 3-4 November 2007. OPHI team members presented revised versions of papers on missing dimensions of poverty data, originally delivered at OPHI’s Launch in May, and solicited the input of Chinese researchers and policymakers.
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17 September 2007
2007 Conference of the HDCA: "Ideas Changing History"
New York
OPHI staff participated in the 2007 HDCA Annual Conference "Ideas Changing History" held on the 17th-20th of September in New York. The event, hosted by the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School in New York City and supported by Frederick S. Pardee and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University, featured keynote speakers such as Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, Hilary Putnam, Anthony Appiah and Sir Richard Jolly. Over 320 persons attended, and 170 papers were presented. learn more...
30 May 2007
OPHI Launch Events 2007
University of Oxford
OPHI was launched in a series of events, including three public seminars on 30-31 May 2007, and by a Lecture in the Sheldonian Theatre by Amartya Sen on 30 May at 5pm. Watch these presentations and discussions on OPHI's podcasts page.
28 March 2007
OPHI Workshop on Teaching Human Development, Oxford
Oxford, UK (Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
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. More...
