OPHI Research in Progress

OPHI Research in Progress (RP) papers are preliminary documents posted online to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The series number and letter identify each version (i.e. paper RP1a after revision will be posted as RP1b) for citation. They are available to download here. The online Research in Progress are supported by a hard copy print-on-demand service upon request.

Please cite these papers as Author Last name, First name, “Title” (Year) OPHI Research in Progress ##a. (For example: Alkire, Sabina “Well-being Happiness and Public Policy” (2013) OPHI Research in Progress 37a.)

No.	Title	Author	Download	Year
37a	Well-being, Happiness, and Public Policy	Sabina Alkire		2013
36a	Multidimensional poverty measurement for EU-SILC countries	Sabina Alkire, Mauricio Apablaza and Euijin Jung		2012
35a	The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index	Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Greg Seymour, and Ana Vaz		2012
34a	Chronic Multidimensional Poverty or Multidimensional Chronic Deprivation	Mauricio Apablaza and Gaston Yalonetzky		2012
33a	Poverty as lack of autonomy: Bridging the absolute/relative divide?	Sebastian Silva Leander		2012
32a	Sub-national Disparities and Inter-temporal Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty across Developing Countries	Sabina Alkire, José Manuel Roche and Suman Seth		2011
31a	Training Material for Producing the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)	Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos		2011
30a	Training Material for Producing the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)	Sabina Alkire, Suman Seth, Gaston Yalonetzky and Diego Zavaleta		2011
29a	Training Material for Producing the Human Development Index (HDI)			2011
28a	Training Material for Producing National Human Development Reports-The Gender Inequality Index (GII)	Suman Seth		2011
27a	On the Possibility of Measuring Freedom: a Kantian Perspective	Sebastian Silva-Leander		2011
26b	Revealed Meta-Preferences: Axiomatic Foundations of Normative Assessments in the Capability Approach	Sebastian Silva-Leander		2011
25a	A note on the standard errors of the members of the Alkire Foster family and its components	Gaston Yalonetzky		2011
24a	A Sensitivity Assessment of Multidimensional Poverty to Various Sets of Missing Dimensions’ Indicators: The Chilean Case	Carlos De Los Rios and Jessica De Los Rios		2010
23a	Multidimensional Poverty and its Discontents	Sabina Alkire		2010
22a	Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights?	Sabina Alkire, Maria Emma Santos, Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky		2010
21a	An Axiomatic Approach to Identification and Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty	Sabina Alkire and James E. Foster		2009
20a	Multidimensional Targeting: Identifying Beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs	Viviane Azevedo and Marcos Robles		2010
19a	The Multidimensionality of Child Poverty: an Empirical Investigation on Children of Afghanistan	Mario Biggeri, Jean-Francois Trani and Vincenzo Mauro		2010
18a	Capability and Group Inequalities: Revealing the Latent Structure	José Manuel Roche		2009
17a	Quality of Employment and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Chile	Lea Cassar		2010
16a	A Comparison Between the Pearson-based Dissimilarity Index and the Multiple-Group Overlap Index	Gaston Yalonetzky		2010
15a	Conceptual Overview of Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts	Sabina Alkire		2009
14a	Measuring group disadvantage with indices based on relative distributions	Gaston Yalonetzky		2010
13a	The Pink Streak in a Grey Market: Queerness and Poverty in the Urban Philippines	Ryan Thoreson		2009
12a	Agencia de los padres y logros de los hijos: Explorando el caso de America Latina	Maria Emma Santos, Emma Samman, Gaston Yalonetzky		2009
11b	Child Poverty Measurement: An Assessment of Methods and an Application to Bangladesh	José Manuel Roche		2009
10a	Agency and Empowerment: A review of concepts, indicators and empirical evidence	Emma Samman and Maria Emma Santos		2009
9a	Testing for stochastic dominance among additive, multivariate welfare functions with discrete variable	Gaston Yalonetzky		2009
8a	The MDGs: Multidimensionality and Interconnection	Sabina Alkire with James Foster		2009
7a	Determining BPL Status: Some Methodological Improvements	Sabina Alkire and Suman Seth		2009
6a	Multidimensional Measures of Poverty & Well-Being	Sabina Alkire and Moizza B Sarwar		2009
5a	Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index: Methodology and Results	Sabina Alkire		2008
4a	Gross National Happiness and Poverty in Bhutan: Applying the GNH Index Methodology to explore Poverty	Sabina Alkire, Maria Emma Santos, and Karma Ura		2008
3a	Amartya Sen	Sabina Alkire		2008
2a	The Capability Approach to Quality of Life Measures	Sabina Alkire.		2008
1a	Counting and Multidimensional Poverty	Sabina Alkire and James Foster		2007