An environmentally-augmented Multidimensional Poverty Index: The Case of Madagascar
Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
The continuing degradation of the environment, which constitutes a major threat to human life, urges scientists to find new reliable methods to measure the association between human well-being and the state of the environment. There is a clear nexus between human poverty and environmental issues. They have been identified as acute and urgent overlapping policy issues which demand good measures to address them jointly. At the same time, considerable research has focused on analysing the relationship between development or poverty and the environment, in particular with a focus on monetary poverty, food security, livelihoods, and other ecosystem services. This paper seeks to contribute to this policy and research work by providing a discussion of overlaps between multidimensional poverty levels and different environmental aspects and issues; and by building a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) which integrates an environmental dimension and respective indicators. Using Madagascar as a case study, we focus on forest, air quality, cyclones, earthquakes, and fire, which we use to construct indicators reflecting environmental deprivations. For this, we are merging MICS and DHS household datasets with spatial environmental data.
Date: 10 October 2022, 16:00
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development
Organisers: Kelly-Ann Fonderson (University of Oxford), Pedro Conceição (UNDP HDRO), Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University), Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: kelly-ann.fonderson@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Part of: OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bit.ly/Register-OPHI-Seminar
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Kelly-Ann Fonderson