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HIGHLIGHTS
- Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013 findings released
- OPHI announces Amartya Sen’s lecture and policy network launch, 6 June 2013
- OPHI special issue of Social Indicators Research is published online
- Alkire and Sumner call for an MPI 2.0 for the post-2015 development agenda
- The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index celebrates its first anniversary
- James Foster makes acclaimed call for a post-2015 MPI at CSAE Conference
- Hammock promotes OPHI’s multidimensional approach in Latin America
- OPHI runs course on multidimensional poverty for SADC in Johannesburg
- OPHI input to UNICEF’s multidimensional child poverty measurement course
UPCOMING EVENTS
- OPHI-HDCA intensive Spanish-language training course in Nicaragua
- NCRM training course on multidimensional poverty measurement
PUBLICATIONS
- Global MPI 2013: Briefings and Methodological Note
- Working Paper 57: Monitoring Progress in Child Poverty Reduction
- Working Paper 58: The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
- Working Paper 59: Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World
- Working Paper 60: Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India 1999-2006
- Working Paper 61: Where do the World’s Multidimensionally Poor People Live?
PEOPLE
- OPHI invites applications for Senior Research Officer position
- New Researcher appointed to work on Social Isolation
- Visiting academics and students, spring/summer 2013
HIGHLIGHTS
- OPHI research workshop finds income poor and multidimensionally poor households are not the same
- Extensive Analysis of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index
- OPHI visits Brazilian state implementing an MPI
- OPHI awarded prize for ‘extraordinary contributions’
PUBLICATIONS
- Research in Progress Paper 37a: Well-being, Happiness, and Public Policy
- New Working Paper 26b: Rank Robustness of Composite Indices
- Research in Progress Paper 36a: Multidimensional Poverty in EU-SILC Countries
- ‘Missing Dimensions’ resources now in Spanish and Mandarin
- OPHI researcher co-authors working papers on poverty in Venezuela
OPHI EVENTS
- Lunchtime Seminar Series for Hilary term
- Washington workshop examines ‘Inclusive Growth and Poverty in Asia’
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
- Seminar on Multidimensional Poverty Measures and Gender
- OPHI researchers take part in international seminar in Chile
- OPHI gives keynote speech at poverty conference in Tunisia
- Meeting discusses design of Bhutan’s next Gross National Happiness survey
- OPHI Research Officer gives Spanish webinar
- Children of the Andes workshop on ‘Rethinking Poverty’
- OPHI presents three papers at DSA conference
OPHI PEOPLE
- Visiting academics and students, spring/summer 2013
HIGHLIGHTS
- OPHI collaborates with Iraq and Kurdistan statistical offices on Iraq MPI
- State Government in Brazil implements a Multidimensional Poverty Index
- New Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Video
- OPHI Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
PUBLICATIONS
- New Working Paper 54: Identifying BPL Households in India
- New Working Paper 55: A Robust Multidimensional Poverty Profile for Uganda
- New Working Paper 56: Normative Choices and Tradeoffs
- New Research in Progress Paper 35a: The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
OPHI EVENTS
- Lunchtime Seminar Series – Michaelmas Term
- Side event at 4th OECD World Forum in New Delhi
- Workshop on Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty Measures
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
- OPHI to present three papers at DSA conference
- Children of the Andes workshop on ‘Rethinking Poverty’
- OECD DAC Development Debates in Paris
- OPHI research team role at HDCA conference, Jakarta
OPHI PEOPLE
- Visiting Research Associates and Research Fellows, autumn/winter 2012
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