OPHI Seminars
06 February 2012 13:00:
The Gross National Happiness Index of Bhutan
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Monday 6th February
The Gross National Happiness Index of Bhutan
Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director (joint work with the Centre for Bhutan Studies)
27 February 2012 13:00:
Measurement Error in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Monday 27th February
Measurement Error in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
Paola Ballon, OPHI Research Officer (joint work with Yadira Diaz)
01 March 2012 13:00:
Multidimensional Poverty in Southeast Asia
Seminar Room 2, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road
Thursday 1 March
Multidimensional Poverty in Southeast Asia
Dr. Suman Seth, OPHI Research Officer, Seminar Room 2, QEH, 3 Mansfield Road, 13.00-14.00
05 March 2012 13:00:
Poverty as Lack of Autonomy: A Definition and Empirical Illustration
Seminar Room 3, QEH
Monday 5th March
Poverty as Lack of Autonomy: A Definition and Empirical Illustration
Sebastian Silva-Leander, OPHI Research Officer
Previous Seminars
Michaelmas Term 2011
Monday 10th October
Introduction to OPHI: Why Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and the Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data?
Monday 17th October
Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011: New Country Results, Changes Over Time and Sub-national Decompositions (joint work with José Manuel Roche, Maria Emma Santos and Suman Seth)
Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
Monday 24th October
Beyond Headcount: Measures that Reflect the Breadth and Components of Child Poverty (joint work with Sabina Alkire)
José Manuel Roche, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 31th October
Identifying Below Poverty Line (BPL) Households in India: A Comparison of Methods (joint work with Sabina Alkire)
Suman Seth, Research Officer, OPHI
Monday 7th November
Conditions for the Most Robust Poverty Comparisons Using Counting Measures
Gaston Yalonetzky, Lecturer in Economics, Leeds University Business School and OPHI Research Associate
Monday 14th November
Contribution of Increased Life Expectancy to Living Standards
Markus Haacker, Academic Visitor at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Monday 21st November
Vulnerability to Individual Poverty and Vulnerability to Aggregate Poverty (joint work with Stefan Dercon)
Cesar Calvo, Director, Economics and Finance Program, Universidad de Piura, Peru
Trinity Term 2011
Monday 9th May
Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty (co-authored with James Foster)
Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI
Monday 16th May
What explains the redundancy of the Human Development Index?
Suman Seth, OPHI
Tuesday 24th May
Tracking Poverty and Gender Equity
Thomas Pogge, University of Yale
Monday 6th June
Revealed preferences in Amartya Sen’s framework
Sebastian Silva-Leander, OPHI
Monday 13th June
Constructing validation for agency data: A micro-case study from a field of one’s own and others
Cecilia Tinonin, University of Bologna
Monday 20th June
Multidimensional Poverty in Venezuela during 1997 – 2010: A proposal for a nationally adapted measure for monitoring purposes
César Gallo, Central University of Venezuela and Jose Manuel Roche, OPHI
