BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children: Four Measurement St rategies - Mr Jakob Dirksen (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiati ve) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210208T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210208T163000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d4c0a79a-5fa5-4e68-ad4a-cbbef290ad66/ DESCRIPTION:This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for Inter national Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Huma n Development Report Office.\nThis seminar will be held online\, to regist er\, visit: https://gwu.webex.com/gwu/onstage/g.php?MTID=edfecbed3b4abba51 d3f1b1049830ce62 \n\nAbout the paper:\nIn order to break intergenerationa l cycles of poverty and sustainably alleviate deprivations\, explicit focu s on\, and prioritisation of\, disadvantaged children is imperative. This all the more so given that children are evidently both among the most vuln erable and oftentimes among the poorest members of societies around the wo rld. In order to effectively focus policy efforts on the alleviation of ch ildren's deprivations and to achieve sustainable poverty eradication\, mul tidimensional measures that can accurately capture the many deprivations e xperienced by children are thus key. Recognising that child poverty is cha racterised by age-specific deprivations different from deprivations adults or children of other age groups experience\, a rich and growing literatur e on child multidimensional poverty measurement has emerged. However\, exp erience has shown that\, for pro-poor(est) policy-making\, such efforts ha ve often resulted in disjoint measurement exercises producing separate sta tistics of child versus all-population multidimensional poverty. Such disj oint measures have been difficult to communicate and interpret alongside o ne another - causing confusion that can be disadvantageous in particular f or those whose already disadvantaged circumstances they are meant to captu re and help improve. Responding to this dilemma\, in this presentation we offer four synergetic measurement strategies. These can be used to achieve clear\, policy-prescriptive and actionable population-level statistics of multidimensional poverty that focus attention explicitly and directly on children's deprivations\, guiding the prioritisation of those least well-o ff and at risk of being left behind.\n\nAbout the presenter:\nJakob Dirkse n is part of OPHI’s Research and Outreach teams. He is also a Lecturer a t Leuphana University of Lüneburg\, Germany. He has held research positio ns at the Blavatnik School of Government and Mansfield College at the Univ ersity of Oxford\, and has worked in diplomacy for the German Foreign Offi ce. Jakob studied Liberal Arts and Sciences\, Social Sciences\, and Philos ophy in Germany and Spain. His research interests are the theory and measu rement of well-being\, poverty and inequalities\; sustainable development\ ; and the capability approach.\n\nAbout the discussants:\nAna Vaz is the D irector of Research and Technical Validation at SOPHIA Oxford\, where she is developing tools for companies to measure multidimensional poverty amon g their employees and exploring how multidimensional poverty data might su pport social investment. Before joining SOPHIA Oxford\, Ana was a Senior R esearch Officer at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OP HI)\, University of Oxford. Ana’s work at OPHI focused on the measuremen t of multidimensional poverty and women’s empowerment. She holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford\, and she was previously on th e faculty at the Catholic University of Portugal and a consultant at Price waterhouseCoopers. \n\nAbout the Hosts:\nJames E. Foster is the Oliver T. Carr\, Jr. Professor of International Affairs\, Professor of Economics\, and Co-Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy at the George Washington University. He is also a Research Associate at the Oxfor d Poverty and Human Development Initiative at Oxford University. Professor Foster’s research focuses on welfare economics — using economic tools to evaluate and enhance the wellbeing of people. His work underlies many well-known social indices including the global Multidimensional Poverty In dex (MPI) published annually by the UNDP in the Human Development Report\, dozens of national MPIs used to guide domestic policy against poverty\, t he Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) at USAID\, the Gross National Happiness Index of Bhutan\, the Better Jobs Index of the InterAme rican Development Bank\, and the Statistical Performance Index of the Worl d Bank. Prof. Foster received his PhD in Economics from Cornell University and has a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Universidad Autonoma del Estado Hi dalgo (Mexico).\n\nSabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Deve lopment Initiative (OPHI). She is the Associate Professor of Development S tudies in the Oxford Department of International Development at the Univer sity of Oxford. Her research interests include multidimensional poverty me asurement and analysis\, welfare economics\, the capability approach\, the measurement of freedoms and human development. From 2015–16\, Sabina wa s Oliver T Carr Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Econom ics at George Washington University. Previously\, she worked at the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University\, the Human Security Commission\, and the World Bank’s Poverty and Culture Learning and Research Initiati ve. She holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.\n\nSpeak ers:\nMr Jakob Dirksen (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative) LOCATION:Venue to be announced TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d4c0a79a-5fa5-4e68-ad4a-cbbef290ad66/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children: Four Measu rement Strategies - Mr Jakob Dirksen (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR