OPHI Seminars

Hilary Term 2013

These seminars are held from 1-2pm in Seminar Room 3, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB. Everyone is welcome, and a complimentary sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.

Monday 14 January
Multidimensional Poverty Measurement for 18 European Countries from 2006-2010
Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI

Monday 21 January
When More Does Not Necessarily Mean Better: Poverty Comparisons with Non-Monotone Welfare Relationships
Mauricio Apablaza, Research Officer, OPHI

Monday 28 January
Chronic Poverty in Indonesia: Multidimensional and Unidimensional Approaches Revisited
Paola Ballon Fernandez, Research Officer, OPHI

Monday 4 February
Where Do the World’s Multidimensional Poor Live?
Andy Sumner, Co-Director of the King’s International Development Institute, King’s College London, and OPHI Research Associate

Monday 11 February
Almost Certainly Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons: Theory and Application
Edward Samuel Jones, Assistant Professor, Development Economics Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen

Monday 18 February
Analysis of Inequality across the Multi-dimensionally Poor and across Population Subgroups for Counting Approaches
Suman Seth, Research Officer, OPHI

Monday 25 February
Does Increased Economic Mobility Raise Social Welfare? The Trade-off between Reduced Life Cycle Inequality and Increased Volatility
Professor Paul Glewwe, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, U.S.

Monday 4 March
Understanding Associations across Deprivation Indicators in Multidimensional Poverty
Paola Ballon Fernandez, Research Officer, OPHI