Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - An Introduction to Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
  Lunch Provided
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Research agenda on multidimensional poverty: important and as-yet unanswered questions
  Lunch Provided
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and other global indices
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Research for Action: A Conversation with Jean Drèze
  Lunch provided; Copies of Prof Jean Drèze's new book 'Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone' will be available for purchase at £9.00 each.
  Prof Jean Drèze (Delhi School of Economics), Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Prof Matthew McCartney (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Understanding the Differences between the MPI and MODA
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - SDGs and multidimensional poverty measurement: methodology and data challenges
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Leave No One Behind – Sustainable Development Goals, Ageing and Global Development

Monday 16 July 2018 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative - Summer School 2018
  A demonstrable knowledge of Stata is an essential pre-requisite for attending the course. Every attendant to the Summer School will need to have Stata 10 or higher installed on their laptop. The software will not be provided by the Summer School.
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Bilal Malaeb (Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Ana Vaz (University of Oxford), Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The New Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Dr Usha Kanagaratnam (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Multidimensional poverty reduction in India: changes over time
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Child poverty in South Asia
  A sandwich lunch is available on a first come, first served basis.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The role of inequality in poverty measurement
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - How Covid-19 Will Affect the Global Poor
  Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Development

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Research for Action: A Conversation with Jean Drèze
  Lunch provided; Copies of Prof Jean Drèze's new book 'Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone' will be available for purchase at £9.00 each.
  Prof Jean Drèze (Delhi School of Economics), Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford), Prof Matthew McCartney (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Child poverty, public expenditure, and social policy in South Asia
  Dr Abdul Alim (UNICEF)

Tuesday 8 January 2019 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - International Society for Bhutan Studies (ISBS) Inaugural Conference
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 9 January 2019 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - The First Ten Years of Democracy: Reflections from Bhutan
  Dasho Tshering Tobgay (Former Prime Minister of Bhutan)
• 17:00 - Development with Integrity: Bhutan’s development and its Gross National Happiness Index
  Dasho Karma Ura (President of the Center for Bhutan Studies & Gross National Happiness)

Thursday 22 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 22:00 - Peace in the Age of Chaos: The Best Solution for a Sustainable Future
  Steve Killelea (Institute for Economics and Peace)

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen
  Professor Amartya Sen (Harvard University)

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Multidimensional Deprivation Index: an experimental measure for European developed countries
  Dr Cecilia Calderon (UNDP Human Development Report Office)

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 19 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 22 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 22:00 - Peace in the Age of Chaos: The Best Solution for a Sustainable Future
  Steve Killelea (Institute for Economics and Peace)

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 3 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)
  OPHI Seminar Series

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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