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- Half the world’s poor people are children: Global MPI 2017
- Aligning Global MPI with SDGs
- Disaggregating MPI by disability
- Publications
- More news
- Announcements
- Measuring the interconnected dimensions of poverty to energise policy
- Impact of MPI on social policy in Colombia
- Dimensions – New policy outlet for country voices
- Publications
- More news
- Announcements
- Atkinson report on measuring global poverty
- 4th annual MPPN meeting in Acapulco
- Professor Amartya Sen encourages debate
- Winter MPI update
- Publications
- Atkinson Commission Report “Monitoring Global Poverty”
- UNGA Side Event “Measuring and Tackling Poverty in All its Dimensions”
- MPPN Annual high-level meeting to be held in Mexico in November
- Publications
- News
- Honduras Launches MPI
- Chile MPI’s New Dimension
- Summer School in China
- Child Poverty in Bhutan
- Publications
- More News
- Announcements
- Global MPI 2016 launched
- Multidimensional Poverty in Africa
- MPI launched in Pakistan
- Publications
- Announcements
- OPHI and MPPN host side event at UN Statistical Commission
- New Alkire-Foster WP on inequality among multidimensionally poor
- Peru takes up multidimensional poverty measurement
- Publications
- Announcements
- Ecuador launches National MPI
- MPI study presented in Indonesia
- OPHI Working Paper on how to measure destitution
- Announcements:
- OPHI and MPPN to host Side Event at UN Statistical Commission
- 2016 OPHI Summer School to be held in Beijing, China
- 5 years of the Global MPI
- Growing take-up of national-level multidimensional poverty indices
- MPI indicators within the Sustainable Development Goals
- OPHI’s key expertise in one book
- OPHI awarded for its research impact
- Recent publications
- Updates and coverage in June 2015
- Key findings
- Policy briefings
- Interactive databank
- Special event 22 June: Launch of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015 and launch of OPHI’s comprehensive new book
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement & Analysis available to pre-order now
- OPHI participates in the Ashmolean Museum’s Live Friday
- OPHI, the MPPN and the Government of Colombia host special side-event at Cartagena Data Festival
- Recent Publications
- Blogs and media
- OPHI People
- OPHI staff visit Ivory Coast to discuss multidimensional poverty measurement in Africa
- OPHI and MPPN host UN side-event on multidimensional poverty measurement
- All Draft Chapters of OPHI’s book on multidimensional poverty now online
- Vacancy: Research Officer
- OPHI’s 2015 Summer School
- Special Side-Event at the 21-22 April Data Festival in Cartagena Colombia
- A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
- Multidimensional Poverty Index 2015+
- New Working Papers of draft chapters in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis
- Blogs
- OPHI launches Global MPI updates for Winter 2014/2015
- First chapters of OPHI book on multidimensional poverty measurement available online
- Chile announces national Multidimensional Poverty Index
- Secretary-General’s post-2015 synthesis report calls for multidimensional poverty measures
- OPHI lunchtime seminar programme for Hilary Term 2015
- Recent publications: New working papers and global MPI highlights briefing
- Blogs and media coverage: TIME, Guardian, New York Times and Huffington Post
- OPHI people: New staff
HIGHLIGHTS
- Government of the Philippines adopts multidimensional poverty measure
- Deadlines approaching for OPHI’s Summer School in Oxford, 11-23 August
- New multidimensional measure of extreme poverty proposed in Chile
- Caribbean moves forward with multidimensional poverty measure
- OPHI’s China Mills launches her book on global mental health
EVENTS
- Lunchtime Seminar Series for Hilary Term – podcasts available online
PUBLICATIONS
- Alkire and Santos paper on global MPI published online in World Development
- Measuring Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor – new working paper by Seth and Alkire
- Social isolation: A conceptual and measurement proposal – new working paper by Zavaleta, Samuel & Mills
- Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation – new working paper by Robano and Smith
- Young Lives publishes a working paper on ‘Decomposing Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics’ by OPHI’s Apablaza and Yalonetzky
- Gender Inequality in Multidimensional Welfare Deprivation in West Africa – new working paper by Agbodji, Batana and Ouedraogo
- A Multidimensional Approach to the Bottom Billion – new Research in Progress paper by Alkire, Roche, Seth and Sumner
BLOGS & MEDIA
- Sabina Alkire interviewed on Bhutan’s new poverty measure in Kuensel
- CNN mentions OPHI’s work in its round-up of stories of note in 2013
- Sabina Alkire discusses multidimensional poverty on Voice of Russia
PEOPLE
- Research Associates – José Manuel Roche, Paola Ballon and Mauricio Apablaza
- OPHI welcomes visiting academics for spring/summer 2014
HIGHLIGHTS
- OPHI calls for a new household survey to further ‘data revolution’
- MPPN works to advance multidimensional poverty measurement post-2015
- Outreach activities and poverty training courses
- OPHI participates in panel on multidimensional poverty at DSA conference
- Gates Foundation publishes article on measuring women’s empowerment
- Growing uptake of the WEAI
PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
- OPHI Director on post-2015 panel at European Development Days conference
- Professor James Foster discusses multidimensional poverty in video
- OPHI’s Suman Seth gave two lectures in the US
- OPHI Research Associate Santos gives video interview on MPI workshop
- Sabina Alkire takes part in London debates on ending poverty
BLOGS
- Al-Jazeera has published OPHI Researcher Mihika Chatterjee’s article on food
- security in India
- The Huffington Post publishes article on call for MPI2015+
- OPHI Director’s post features on World We Want poverty eradication
EVENTS
- Lunchtime Seminar Series podcasts available online
PUBLICATIONS
- Sabina Alkire’s chapter published in OECD report on ‘Ending Poverty’
- Human recognition and economic development
- Measuring Autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh
- ‘Compromising conventions’ paper published inWork, Employment & Society
PEOPLE
- José Manuel Roche joins Save the Children as Head of Research
- OPHI welcomes new Research Officer Bouba Housseini
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