• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Dr Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford) , Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University) , Pedro Conceição (UNDP HDRO)
• Timing: Mondays at 4pm
• Web Address: https://ophi.org.uk/seminars
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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

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

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)