OPHI and the UNDP’s Human Development Report Office (HDRO) have joined forces to revise the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which will be launched in Scandinavia House, New York, on September 20, 2018. UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner and Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton will be among those presenting at the forthcoming launch event. OPHI and the UNDP HDRO have a longstanding relationship stretching back to 2010 when the first global MPI was launched. The revised measure improves on the structure and definition of indicators and will cover more than 100 countries. Under the leadership of Selim Jahan from HDRO, and Sabina Alkire and Usha Kanagaratnam from OPHI, minor adjustments to five of the global MPI indicators have been agreed, which better align the global MPI with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The revision exercise benefited from a consultation in which more than 50 countries and international agencies participated. Their expertise strengthened the final project, while also highlighting ongoing gaps in the underlying data. The global MPI will be disaggregated by over 1500 sub-national regions, as well as by age and other demographic characteristics, making it particularly useful in identifying people who are left behind in multiple SDGs.
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Dimensions 10th Anniversary Edition Published
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A new special edition of Dimensions magazine is now published. This issue celebrates OPHI’s 10-year anniversary with contributions from Amartya Sen, Michael Spence and Anthony Shorrocks. Also featured are a series of interviews with James Foster, Frances Stewart and María Emma Santos sharing their views on OPHI’s work and its future, along with a full record of OPHI’s achievements to date. Dimensions is a publication of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) and is available on www.mppn.org.
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OPHI successfully delivered its 10th Annual Summer School in Oxford at the Department of International Development during 16-28 July. The Summer School featured participants from over 40 countries and a range of disciplines including representatives from national governments and institutes of statistics, as well as participants from international agencies and university academics. The Summer School provides participants from different countries with the conceptual and technical tools for them to be able to create and confidently interpret and present national MPIs that are tailored to their national context and priorities.
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ISBS Inaugural Conference
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OPHI is supporting a multidisciplinary conference on Bhutan with partners at the Centre for Bhutan Studies and Gross National Happiness taking place in Oxford on 8-10 January 2019. The event will feature multidisciplinary academic papers on many aspects of Bhutanese society, serve as a vehicle for promoting the work of Bhutanese scholars, and feature sessions on Bhutanese culture for non-academic participants alongside the academic sessions at the conference. Those with an interest in Bhutan can find further details on the conference web page.
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HOW TO BUILD A NATIONAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX (MPI): USING THE MPI TO INFORM THE SDGs
OPHI in collaboration with UNDP has written a handbook that aims to provide detailed practical guidance for planners, policymakers, and statisticians on how to build a technically rigorous National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). It also provides concrete evidence on how countries have designed and computed their National MPIs to guide policy and to accelerate progress across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. It is meant to accompany the design and technical estimation of a National MPI as an official permanent statistic on poverty. At the same time, the handbook is meant to guide the discussions with stakeholders that will inform the design and planning on how to use the MPI for policy. This handbook will be published later in 2018 and will include online resources to support the process of designing a National MPI.
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UN Export Group Meeting and Policy Forum on Poverty
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OPHI Research Officer Dr Christian Oldiges and Research Associate Dr Pali Lehohla recently spoke at the UN Expert Group Meeting and Policy Forum on Poverty, Inequality and Jobs in Africa at the Economics Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The UN ECA meeting featured many discussions around unemployment, youth unemployment, inequality, and women’s empowerment in Africa, highlighting the concept of the ‘working poor’. It was shown that a majority of the poor are employed, something of important relevance to MPI studies.
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EU General Data Protection Regulation
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