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Juan Manuel Santos Launches Visiting Professorship with public lecture

Former Colombian President and Nobel Peace Laureate Juan Manuel Santos delivered the lecture, titled ‘Reducing Poverty and Building Peace in Colombia: Inextricably Linked Processes’, on 12 November 2019 at the Sheldonian Theatre. In the lecture, he outlined the circumstances that inspired him to pursue peace negotiations with FARC rebels in Colombia, as well as the conditions he sought to create that would make the process possible. He also spoke about Colombia’s experience of implementing a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), developed with OPHI as part of the process of building peace.

Professor Santos began a three-year Visiting Professorship at ODID in November with this Distinguished Public Lecture, and with a series of informal meetings with academics and students. During his Visiting Professorship, Professor Santos will conduct independent work on poverty reduction and peace building and environmental sustainability with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at ODID, as well as via interaction with the vibrant academic community of the department and University at large.

Read more here.


Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network 2018 Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa

Photo: Mbongiseni Mndebele / OPHI

The 6th Annual Meeting of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 30 October – 1 November 2018. The meeting was hosted by the Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation responsible for Statistics South Africa, with the support of the Department of Social Development and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). This dynamic meeting featured South-South exchanges about how countries and institutions were measuring and tackling multidimensional poverty to help improve the lives of the poor. Special attention was given to how the measures could be used for policy action and how to report the measures for tracking progress towards the SDGs. Read more here.

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Global MPI 2018 Report

You've seen some of the key findings...Now you can access the FULL REPORT from the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)! The 2018 global MPI is an internationally comparable measure of acute poverty for 105 countries, covering 5.7 billion people (approximately 77% of the global population). It is a valuable complement to income poverty measures as the MPI captures the simultaneous deprivations that each person experiences in ten indicators. Five of the ten indicators have been revised jointly by OPHI and UNDP to align the MPI with the 2030 Agenda. This is in response to the Agenda's call for a better measure of progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 1 - "to end poverty in all its forms" - and to help achieve the principle of leaving no one behind. Download the REPORT here.

 

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UN General Assembly 2018 Side Event


The side event featured how countries are using multidimensional poverty metrics to fight the interlinked features of poverty in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere. High-level participants from 19 countries and international institutions shared their experiences developing and utilizing multidimensional poverty metrics to measure poverty and design policies to eradicate poverty and work towards achieving the SDGs. 

Read more here.

Philippines and Rwanda Launch their a National MPIs

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) based on an initial methodology (Alkire Foster Method). The MPI serves to complement the income-based measure of poverty. Read more here
The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) launched their official RW-MPI in December 2018. Having four dimensions and aligned to national action plans, Rwanda’s MPI includes an innovative indicator on job diversity. The RW-MPI report is posted here.

 
Events
2019

8-10 January, International Society of Bhutan Studies Conference
OPHI is honoured to organise the inaugural conference of ISBS, which is a multidisciplinary area studies society, committed to fostering exchange among researchers on Bhutan. Read more here.

OPHI Research Seminar Series 
During Hilary term OPHI will continue the research seminar series at the Department of International Development. Stay tuned for our list of speakers. 

25-29 March, multidimensional poverty training course in Spanish 
The Ministry of Social Development of Panama and OPHI are organising a training on multidimensional poverty in Spanish in Panama City. For more information and to apply see this link.
 

Side event at the UN Statistical Commission in New York on Multidimensional Poverty (Date tbc). 

 

OPHI Summer School on multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis 

We are happy to announce that the summer school 2019 will take place in Mexico City in August 2019. Applications will open in January. Keep an eye on our website!

There are many more exciting events in 2019. Stay tuned!

Publications

JOURNALS 
Kunze, L. and Suppa, N. (2018). ‘The effect of unemployment on social participation of spouses – Evidence from plant closures in Germany’, Empirical Economics online (02 August 2018), DOI 10.1007/s00181-018-1542-4. Link.

WORKING PAPERS 
Mitchell, A. and Macció, J. (2018). ‘Evaluating the effects of housing interventions on multi-dimensional poverty: the case of TECHO-Argentina’, OPHI Working Paper 120, University of Oxford. Link.

Alkire, S. and Jahan, S. (2018). The New Global MPI 2018: aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals’, OPHI Working Paper 121, University of Oxford. Link.

Milovich, J. Y. (2018). ‘Does aid reduce poverty?’, OPHI Working Paper 122, University of Oxford. Link.

Seth, S. and Yalonetzky, G. (2018). ‘Assessing deprivation with ordinal variables: depth sensitivity and poverty aversion’, OPHI Working Paper 123, University of Oxford. Link.

Song, S. and Imai, K.S. (2018). ‘Does the Hunger Safety Net Programme reduce Multidimen­sional poverty? Evidence from Kenya’, OPHI Working Paper 124, University of Oxford. Link.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SERIES
Alkire, S. and Robson, M. (2018). ‘On data availability for assessing monetary and multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Research in Progress 52a, University of Oxford. Link.

Vollmer, F. and Alkire, S. (2018). ‘Towards a global asset indicator: re-assessing the asset indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI Research in Progress 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. Link.

Alkire, S., Oldiges, C. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2018). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: still a long way to go but the poorest are catching up’, OPHI Research in Progress 54a, University of Oxford. Link.

METHODOLOGICAL NOTES
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2018). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2018 revision’, OPHI MPI Methodological Notes 46, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. Link.


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