Dynamic Comparison between Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty

Research workshop | 21-22 November, Oxford Department of International Development, Oxford 2012

OPHI workshop, November 2012 This workshop was held in Oxford by OPHI and Stephan Klasen, Professor of Development Economics and Empirical Economic Research at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

The workshop saw 17 papers presented: two of them on multidimensional poverty methods; two on monetary poverty; and 13 in which monetary poverty and multidimensional poverty were compared in different countries, including Bhutan, India, Nepal, Uganda, Vietnam, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Indonesia and South Africa. You can download and listen to the presentations given by clicking on the links in the table below.

During the workshop a number of video interviews were recorded in which participants including Stephan Klasen, Sabina Alkire and Frances Stewart shared their thoughts on the key findings; you can watch the interviews here.

The workshop looked at a number of practical questions:

When do multidimensional poverty measures add information lacking in monetary poverty measures?
If the headcounts of income and MPI are similar, are the same people identified as poor by both measures?
Should a multidimensional poverty measure include income or consumption poverty, or should these be kept separate?
How do relationships across multidimensional and income poverty measures evolve over time?

In order to catalyse comments and input, four common analyses were presented by the papers which compared monetary and multidimensional poverty:

Rural-urban
By quintile
By household size
Cross-tabs of multidimensional and monetary poverty with matching headcounts.

Participants of the workshop included Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, OPHI Advisor and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University; Francis Stewart, Professor Emeritus of Development Economics at Oxford University’s Department for International Development (ODID); Doug Golling, Professor of Development Economics at ODID; and James Foster, OPHI Research Associate and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at The Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in the United States.

Presenter	Presentation and Audio
Sabina Alkire	Introduction and Problematic Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Sabina Alkire	Understanding Associations Across Deprivation Indicators in Multidimensional Poverty Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Maria Emma Santos	Tracking Poverty Reduction in Bhutan Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Rajeev Kumar	Comparing Multidimensional Poverty and Consumption Poverty based on Primary Survey in India Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Sandip Sarkar	Multidimensional Poverty in India: Insights from NSSO Data Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Shabana Mitra	Multidimensionality of Poverty in Nepal Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Ram Hari Gaihre	Comparison between Multidimensional Poverty Index and Monetary Poverty for Nepal Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Caroline Dotter	The (Ir-)Relevance of the International Poverty Line for National Poverty Assessment Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
James Foster	Poverty Measurement and the Distribution of Deprivations among the Poor Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Stephan Klasen	Global Absolute and ‘Weakly Relative’ Poverty Revisited Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Stephan Klasen	Mapping MPI and Monetary Poverty: The Case of Uganda Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Sebastian Levine	Comparing Multidensional and Monetary Poverty in Uganda Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Van Tran-Quang	The Dynamics of Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty in Vietnam Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Juan Pablo Ocampo	(Re-)Counting the Poor in Peru: A Multidimensional Approach Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
José Manuel Roche	Multidimensional Poverty Analysis in Venezuela, 1997-2010 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Iván González de Alba	Mexico’s ‘Official’ Multidimensional Poverty Measure: A Comparative Study of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Populations Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Paola Ballon Fernandez	Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. We apologise for the quality of the audio at the beginning of this recording
Stephan Klasen	MPI vs Income Poverty in South Africa using the South African National Income Dynamics Study Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.