• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
• Timing: Tuesdays at 4:10pm
• Web Address: https://ophi.org.uk/events/ophi-events
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Friday 18 October 2019

• 13:00 - The first revision of the global MPI: Empirical insights and robustness
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Friday 25 October 2019

• 13:00 - Multidimensional energy poverty: A quasi-experimental approach applied to education
  Mr Jeff Pagel (University of Barcelona)

Friday 1 November 2019

• 13:00 - The role of inequality in poverty measurement
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)

Friday 15 November 2019

• 13:00 - Relationships between monetary poverty and the global MPI: Joint, separate or correlated distributions?
  Dr Matthew Robson (University of York)

Friday 22 November 2019

• 13:00 - Revisions of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Indicator options and their empirical assessment
  Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Friday 29 November 2019

• 13:00 - The Creative Wealth of Nations
  Mr Patrick Kabanda

Friday 6 December 2019

• 13:00 - Sensitivity analyses in poverty measurement: The case of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Friday 24 January 2020

• 13:00 - Too young to die: Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality
  Dr Benoît Decerf (University of Namur)

Friday 7 February 2020

• 13:00 - Building a composite Multidimensional Poverty Index using Delphi dimensions, indicators and weights
  Putu Natih (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford)

Friday 14 February 2020

• 13:00 - The quality of employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: A multidimensional perspective
  Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics), Dr Mauricio Apablaza (Universidad del Desarrollo)

Friday 21 February 2020

• 13:00 - Unidimensional underpinnings of multidimensional counting measures
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)

Friday 28 February 2020

• 13:00 - On synthetic income panels
  Dr Hector Moreno (OPHI)

Friday 6 March 2020

• 13:00 - Identifying inequality benchmark incomes
  Dr Laurence Roope (Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford)

Friday 13 March 2020

• 13:00 - *Postponed* Robust non-parametric estimation of inequality measures with contaminated data
  The talk has been postponed, a new date will be communicated soon.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Queen Mary University of London)

Friday 16 October 2020

• 13:00 - A journey of acute poverty: the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Friday 23 October 2020

• 13:00 - Measuring human recognition for women in Malawi using the Alkire-Foster method of multidimensional poverty counting
  Dr Ebelechukwu Maduekwe (Technical University of Munich)

Friday 30 October 2020

• 13:00 - Catastrophic payments and multidimensional poverty: A longitudinal analysis
  Dr Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio (Universidad de Los Andes and OPHI), Dr Paul Rodriguez (Universidad del Rosario)

Friday 6 November 2020

• 13:00 - Construction of an internationally comparable Child Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Mr Richard Freund (Young Lives)

Friday 13 November 2020

• 13:00 - Poor households or poor individuals? The issue of the unit of identification when designing an MPI
  Dr María Emma Santos (Universidad Nacional del Sur, CONICET and OPHI)

Friday 20 November 2020

• 13:00 - Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: conceptual framework and empirical results
  Dr Frank Vollmer (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Piero Conforti (FAO), Dr. José A. Rosero Moncayo (Director of the Statistics Division in the Economic and Social Development Department, FAO)

Friday 27 November 2020

• 13:00 - Endogenous weights and multidimensional poverty: A cautionary tale
  Dr Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds)

Friday 4 December 2020

• 13:00 - A bird’s eye view of well-being: Exploring a multidimensional measure for the UK
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 18 January 2021

• 15:00 - Sensitivity analyses in poverty measurement: The case of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (OPHI, CED)

Monday 25 January 2021

• 15:00 - Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 1 February 2021

• 15:00 - Moderate internationally comparable MPI
  Dr Elina Scheja (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)

Monday 8 February 2021

• 15:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children: Four Measurement Strategies
  Mr Jakob Dirksen (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 22 February 2021

• 15:00 - Analysing Individual Deprivations alongside Household Poverty: Possibilities for Gendered, Intrahousehold, and Multidimensional Analyses
  The topic of this event has changed
  Dr Rizwan ul Haq (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics)

Monday 1 March 2021

• 15:00 - Inequality among the multidimensionally poor in over 100 countries
  Dr Maria Emma Santos (OPHI, CONICET)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 15:00 - Growth elasticity of multidimensional poverty in India between 2005/06 and 2015/16
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)

Monday 19 April 2021

• 15:00 - Horizontal and Intersecting Wealth Inequalities in Mozambique – 1997 to 2017
  Dr Ricardo Santos (UNU-WIDER)

Monday 26 April 2021

• 15:00 - The Policy and Advocacy Use of Multidimensional Poverty Measures
  David Stewart (UNICEF), Sólrún (Sola) Engilbertsdóttir (UNICEF)

Monday 3 May 2021

• 15:00 - The Impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme on multidimensional poverty of refugees in Turkey
  Nils Grede (World Food Programme)

Monday 10 May 2021

• 15:00 - A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement
  Dr. Yeshwas Admasu Bogale (The World Bank)

Monday 17 May 2021

• 15:00 - Who is Being Left Behind? Closing the Horizontal Inequality Gap
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Rachel Gisselquist (UNU-WIDER), Maren Andrea Jimenez (UN-DESA)

Monday 24 May 2021

• 15:00 - Using multidimensional poverty and vulnerability indices to inform equitable policies and interventions in health emergencies
  Dr. NILUKA WIJEKOON KANNANGARAGE (WHO), Juan Daniel Oviedo (DANE Colombia)

Monday 11 October 2021

• 16:00 - Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 - Unmasking Disparities: Ethnicity, Race, and Gender
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO), Yanchun Zhang (UNDP HDRO), Sophie Scharlin-Pettee (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 October 2021

• 16:00 - On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty
  Change of topic for this session. The original session is postponed.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Yanchun Zhang (UNDP HDRO), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO)

Monday 25 October 2021

• 16:00 - Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)

Monday 8 November 2021

• 16:00 - Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty
  Dr Liyousew Borga (University of Luxembourg), Dr Conchita D’Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg)

Monday 15 November 2021

• 16:00 - On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (OPHI, CED)

Monday 22 November 2021

• 16:00 - Predicting and Mapping MPI using Geospatial and Combined Disparate Data Sources
  Dr Neeti Pokhriyal (Dartmouth), Dr Damien Christophe Jacques (Louvain)

Monday 29 November 2021

• 16:00 - Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN programme in Turkey
  Dr Matthew Robson (University of York)

Monday 7 February 2022

• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty and Children in Punjab, Pakistan
  Rizwan ul Haq (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 February 2022

• 16:00 - Extending Multidimensional Poverty Identification. From Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles
  Sam Jones (UNU-WIDER)

Monday 21 February 2022

• 16:00 - Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
  Kehinde O. Omotoso

Monday 28 February 2022

• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Brazil in the Early 21st Century. Evidence from the Demographic Census
  Adriana Stankiewicz Serra (University of Campinas)

Monday 7 March 2022

• 16:00 - Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty with Bayesian Network Classifiers
  Professor Mauricio Gallardo (Universidad Católica del Norte)

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - 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.
  Various Speakers

Monday 17 October 2022

• 16:00 - The 2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 October 2022

• 16:00 - The many forms of poverty: Analyses of deprivation interlinkages in the developing world
  Light refreshments will be served to in-person attendees.
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - Unidimensional Underpinnings of Multidimensional Counting Measures
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University)

Monday 7 November 2022

• 16:00 - Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: a Global Assessment of Data Availability and Data Gaps
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 14 November 2022

• 16:00 - Human Development Report 2022 - Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives. Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World
  Yu-Chieh Hsu (Human Development Report Office (HDRO)), Tasneem Mirza (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP))

Monday 21 November 2022

• 16:00 - Inclusive absolute well-being changes: An application with multidimensional cross-country analysis
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)

Monday 28 November 2022

• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia in the time of COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Policy Implications
  Light refreshments from Currydor, a local Indian restaurant in Oxford, will be served to in-person attendees.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Putu Natih (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 16:00 - Nigeria National Multidimensional Poverty Index
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be served
  Sola Afolayan (Federal Government of Nigeria), Prince Adeyemi Adeniran (Federal Government of Nigeria)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 16:00 - Optimized multidimensional ​​poverty reduction subject to aid targeting and tailoring: A variety of models centered on policy-makers’ capabilities
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be available to in-person attendees.
  Dr Vladimir Hlasny (UN ESCWA), Dr Hassan Hamie (UN ESCWA), Professor Paul Makdissi (University of Ottawa)

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 16:00 - Cumulative deprivations in the labour market
  Light refreshments from restaurant Currydor will be provided.
  Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Mauricio Apablaza (London School of Economics and Political Science and Universidad del Desarollo, Chile)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty in Europe. A Longitudinal Perspective
  Light refreshments from Currydor will be provided.
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Professor Philippe Van Kerm (University of Luxembourg)

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Indonesia in the time of COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Policy Implications
  Light refreshments will be available from Currydor.
  Dr Putu Natih (University of Oxford), Dr Elan Satriawan (Vice President’s Office, Indonesia)

Wednesday 15 March 2023

• 16:00 - Counting and Accounting: Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction
  Online only
  Dr Maria Emma Santos (OPHI, CONICET)

Monday 9 October 2023

• 16:00 - OPHI IIEP GWU Seminar Series: Global MPI
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 16 October 2023

• 16:00 - Gross National Happiness (GNH)
  Professor Sabina Alikre (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Tshoki Zangmo (OPHI)

Monday 6 November 2023

• 16:00 - Belonging in the Digital World: A Conceptual Framework and a Systematic Review of the inter-generational impact of Social Media on ‘Belonging’ in Adolescents and Older Adults
  Kim Samuel (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (Visiting Scholar), Oxford), Dr Prenika Anand (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 November 2023

• 16:00 - Poverty and human development challenges in Arab countries
  Please book to attend in person.
  Dr Khalid Abu-Ismail (ESCWA)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 16:00 - Global Multidimensional Poverty for Children with Disabilities: A 40 countries study
  Dr Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Research Associate Universidad de los Andes; Researcher OPHI)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 16:00 - A multidimensional measure for energy poverty in Colombia
  Francisco Espinosa (Co-founder and CEO, Inclusion SAS), Angela Granger (Consultant, Inclusion SAS), Ana Lorena Carrero (Consultant, Inclusion SAS)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 16:00 - Multidimensional Poverty: Future Proof with Linked Macro-Micro Modelling
  Asghar Adelzadeh (Applied Development Research Solutions), Ludwe Ngangelizwe (Applied Development Research Solutions)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 16:00 - Moderate Poverty Measurement in Middle Income Countries
  Dr Monica Pinilla-Roncancio (Research Associate Universidad de los Andes; Researcher OPHI), Miss Fanni Kovesdi (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Hector Moreno (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Adriana Conconi (UNDP-LAC)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 16:00 - Measuring 'Leaving no one behind': Options from India
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 16:00 - Towards a ‘Moderate’ MPI for ISDB countries: Indicators and methodological options
  TBA

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 16:10 - Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict
  Please note amended starting time of 4:10pm GMT.
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 16:00 - Unidimensional Underpinnings of Multidimensional Counting Measures
  VENUE CHANGE: This seminar will now take place in the Music Room at Queen Elizabeth House, as well as online as usual.
  Professor James Foster (GWU), Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 16:10 - Measuring women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries
  Jhonatan Clausen (Institute of Human Development of Latin America), Nicolás Barrantes (Institute of Human Development of Latin America)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 16:10 - Resilient Human Development: Advancing human development amidst shocks
  Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 16:10 - Commodity Price Shocks and Quality of Employment in Peru
  Beatriz Jambrina (OPHI)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 16:10 - Poverty and its many faces: An analytical framework for deprivation interlinkages
  Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 16:10 - Multidimensional deprivation among Italian youth
  Elisabetta Segre (Italian Statistics Agency), Alessandra Tinto (Italian Statistics Agency)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 16:10 - Using Machine Learning to Estimate Multidimensional Poverty
  Moumita Ghorai (UNDP HDRO), Heriberto Tapia (UNDP HDRO)