OPHI Updates
e-Update
The OPHI email Update is a regular digest of opportunities, announcements and publications, highlighting key resources and information materials. Join the OPHI mailing list to receive OPHI’s e-Update. Previous issues are available to download here.
e-Update December 2011 [pdf]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- MPI 2011 – Key findings and resources
- Announcing Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
PUBLICATIONS
- On the Possibility of Measuring Freedom: A Kantian Perspective
- Revealed Meta-Preferences: Axiomatic Foundations of Normative Assessments in the Capability Approach
- Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement, Estimation, and Inference
- Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents
- Where Did Identification Go?
CONFERENCES AND TALKS
- Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics
- South Asia in Transition Conference
- Presenting at OECD, HDCA, DSA, UNDP and UNICEF in Dominican Republic and others
OPPORTUNITIES
- OPHI-HDCA training course 2012
- Join OPHI on Facebook
OPHI PEOPLE
- New staff and visitors
e-Update August 2011 [pdf]
PUBLICATIONS
- Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement & MP3 (Working Paper 43)
- Robust poverty comparisons using Alkire-Foster measures (Working Paper 44)
- Beyond Headcount: A New Approach to Child Poverty Measurement (Working Paper 45)
- On the Possibility of Measuring Freedom (Research in Progress 27a)
- Normative Assessments in the Capability Approach (Research in Progress 26b)
OPHI JOBS
- Research Officer ~ Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data
OPHI IN ACTION
- OPHI at ECINEQ and IEA
- Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty and Social Exclusion
- Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America
- Egypt training and seminar
- Why we need new measures of progress
SURVEY AND WEBSITE
- Help OPHI ~ Tell us what you think of the e-Update and website
- French Missing Dimensions modules
- Join OPHI on Facebook
UPCOMING AT OPHI
- Forthcoming OPHI conference appearances
-
South Asia in Transition – Conference
OPHI PEOPLE
- Spring and Summer guest and visitors
e- Update April 2011 [pdf]
OPHI: IN FOCUS
- New research on child poverty dynamics
- Upcoming OPHI Summer School
- Collaborations in Venezuela
- MPI updates for Human Development Report 2011
- James Foster and Martin Ravallion discuss poverty measurement
OPHI IN ACTION
- UNDP-OPHI training course
- Participation in the Kolkata Group
- Bhutan National Statistics Bureau training
- Presenting on ‘Ethics and Development’
PUBLICATIONS
- Forthcoming journal articles
- New OPHI Working Papers
- New OPHI Research in Progress
OPPORTUNITIES
- OPHI Oxford Seminar series – May – June 2011
- Steve Killelea on Economics and Peace – Oxford, 19 May 2011
OPHI PEOPLE
- New OPHI staff
- New guests and visitors
- Staff and visitor updates
e-Update January 2011 [pdf]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- OPHI/UNDP Human Development Report Office Training in Oxford in February
- 2010 UNDP Human Development Report Launched
- OPHI and World Bank Co-host Workshop on Inequality of Opportunities
- OPHI Director Listed in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010
- Summer School on Multidimensional Poverty in Chile
- Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents ~ AFD-EUDN Conference
- The Guardian ~ OPHI Director on the UK Government’s Proposed Happiness Index
- Missing Dimensions Collaborators Visit from the Philippines
- OPHI in Action
- OPHI’s Oxford Seminar Series Will Resume in May 2011
PUBLICATIONS
- Alkire Foster ‘Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement’ Forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics
- New Results on the Robustness of the MPI to Changes in Weights
- New OPHI Working Papers
- New OPHI Research in Progress
- New OPHI Resources on the MPI
e-Update October 2010 [pdf]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Colombia Announces Proposal for National Multidimensional Poverty Measure
- Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Launched
- World Bank Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Workshop
- Missing Dimensions Programme in Chile and Nigeria
- OPHI Summer School and HDCA Conference in Jordan
- New Spanish Summer School on Multidimensional Poverty
- OPHI in Action
PUBLICATIONS
- New OPHI Working Papers
- New OPHI Brochure
OPPORTUNITIES
- OPHI’s Oxford Seminar Series
- Oxford Health Economics Research Centre Seminar: MPI in Practise
e-Update July 2010 [pdf]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Financial Times Coverage ~ Sabina Alkire on OPHI’s Approach to Poverty
- OPHI to Launch New Poverty Measure with the UNDP Human Development Report
- OPHI Measure Attracts High Level Interest in Latin America
- New OPHI Website!
- OPHI Oxford Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality
- Results of OPHI’s Missing Dimensions Modules Pilots in Nigeria, Philippines and Sri Lanka
- Qualitative Work on Missing Dimensions in Mali, Philippines and Bolivia
PUBLICATIONS
- New Working Papers
- New Research in Progress
- New Book on Missing Dimensions of Poverty Available in Mandarin Chinese
OPPORTUNITIES
- International Seminar on New Techniques for Measuring Poverty, Wellbeing and Inequality of Opportunity in Colombia
- Multidimensional Measurement and Analysis of Poverty and Progress in the Next Decade
- OPHI Summer School and HDCA Conference
- OPHI in Action
e-Update April 2010 [pdf]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- UNDP 20th Anniversary Human Development Report
- How Can We Improve Measures of Poverty and Wellbeing? ~ Interview with Sabina Alkire
- Lecture by Helen Clark, Administrator of UNDP ~ Podcast Available
- OPHI Research Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
- Improving Equality of Educational Opportunity in India
- OPHI in Action
- Piloting of OPHI’s Missing Dimensions Modules in Chad, Nigeria and Sri Lanka
- New Working Papers
- New Research in Progress
OPPORTUNITIES
- International Conference on Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America
- Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty Get Involved! Student Grants and Visiting
- Fellows
- OPHI Lunchtime Seminar Series
e-Update February 2010 [pdf]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Mexico Adopts New Poverty Measure Co-Developed by OPHI
- Missing Dimensions Resources Available in French
- New E-Chapter on Measuring Poverty Available ~ Free
- OPHI in Action
OPPORTUNITIES
- International Conference on Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America
- OPHI’s Oxford Lunchtime Seminar Series
e-Update December 2009 [pdf]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Piloting of Missing Dimensions Modules in the Philippines
- Amartya Sen addresses crowds in Oxford ~ Podcasts Available
- Missing Dimensions of Poverty Survey in Chile
- New Working Papers
- New Research in Progress
e-Update November 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Roundtable: ‘Economics and The Idea of Justice’
- Distinguished Public Lecture by Amartya Sen
- Seminar: Social Guarantees for the Eradication of Poverty in Chile
- OPHI Lunchtime Seminar Series
- Get Involved! Research, Visiting Fellows and Volunteers
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- OPHI Research Featured in UNICEF’s Child Poverty Insights
- OPHI at 3rd OECD World Forum, Busan, South Korea
- New E-Textbook Available – Free
- Recent Working Papers
- OPHI Presentations in Washington DC
e-Update October 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Distinguished Public Lecture by Amartya Sen
- OPHI Lunchtime Seminar Series
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Sarkozy Commission Appeals for Better Data and Stronger Measures
- HDCA Conference in Lima, Peru: Proceedings on Poverty, Participation & Power
- OPHI to Exhibit at 3rd OECD World Forum, Busan, South Korea
- HDCA Textbook Available from Earthscan
- Recent Working Papers
- Recent Research in Progress
e-Update September 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Call for Proposals for analysis of Chilean data on Missing Dimensions – deadline 15 September 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- OPHI Workshop on ‘Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data’ in Durban , South Africa
- Recent Working Papers
- Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
- New Textbook Launched: An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach
- New People at OPHI
e-Update July/August 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Call for Proposals for analysis of Chilean data on Missing Dimensions – deadline 15 September 2009
- Call for Participants for Missing Dimensions workshop, Durban, 16 August 2009
- Get involved! Visiting and Sabbatical Fellows – next deadline 1 September 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Multidimensional Measurement in Different Contexts: workshop report and papers
- OPHI ‘Multidimensional Poverty Measurement’ poster available
- Revised survey modules and the full Chilean survey for each Missing Dimension available
- OPHI-CBMS collaboration in the Philippines on Missing Dimensions census
- Research in Progress – new postings
e-Update June 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Get involved! Research and Visiting Fellows, Work Exchange, and Volunteers
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The IADB Adapts OPHI measure for Targeting Beneficiaries in Oportunidades, Mexico
- OPHI Measure Used in Creating the Bhutan Gross National Happiness Index
- New OPHI Working Paper
- New ‘Research in Progress’ series
- OPHI ‘Missing Dimensions’ poster
e-Update May 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Gordon Anderson presents Distinguished Visitor Lecture on Development
- ‘Distribution and Development’ course with James Foster, May–June 2009
- Vacancy: Research Officer in Human Development Data and Indicators
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- OPHI Workshop on Robustness Methods for Multidimensional Welfare Analysis
- OPHI Workshop on Multidimensional Measures in Six Contexts
- OPHI Brochure 2009
e-Update April 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Vacancy: Research Officer in Human Development Data and Indicators
- Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
- ‘Distribution and Development’ course with James Foster, May–June 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- OPHI and the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
- OPHI Workshop on Robustness Methods for Multidimensional Welfare Analysis
- New People at OPHI
e-Update March 2009 [pdf]
OPPORTUNITIES
- Summer school on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty
- Vacancy: Research Officer in Human Development Data and Indicators
- Online Questionnaire about the Human Development Reports
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- OPHI Training for PEP survey teams from Nigeria, Chad and Sri Lanka
- Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data: First National Survey
- Links to OPHI
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
- Four new Working Papers
OPHI Updates
The OPHI Updates newsletter is published in PDF on this page, and in printed copies upon request.
OPHI Updates December 2007 [pdf]
- New multidimensional poverty measure
- Further Missing Dimensions: OPHI and CHEDS in Beijing, 3-4 November 2007
- Oxford Development Studies symposium
- Pilot surveys of Missing Dimensions
- Focus groups convened in Bolivia
- OPHI and PEP Network call for proposals
- Research grants offered to students
- 2008 two-week summer school
- What next for OPHI?
OPHI Updates June 2007 [pdf]
- What is OPHI?
- Amartya Sen helps launch new initiative
- Workshops on missing dimensions and multidimensional comparisons
- Public seminars mark OPHI launch
- What’s next for OPHI?








