Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
(John Wiley & Sons, 2018)This paper proposes a new Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America. The index combines monetary and non‐monetary indicators, updates deprivation cut‐offs for certain traditional unsatisfied basic needs indicators ... -
Statistical Note: Disaggregating Bhutan's MPI 2017 by Disability Status
(University of Oxford, 2018)Since 2010, Bhutan has used a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) alongside consumption poverty to measure and fight poverty in all its forms and dimensions. Bhutan’s National MPI was updated on 2012 and 2017 using the ... -
Assessing Deprivation with Ordinal Variables: Depth Sensitivity and Poverty Aversion
(University of Oxford, 2018)The challenges associated with poverty measurement within an axiomatic framework, especially with cardinal variables, have received due attention during the last four decades. However, there is a dearth of literature ... -
Multidimensional Poverty Measures as Relevant Policy Tools
(University of Oxford, 2018)Poverty measurement is strewn with imperfection. And yet, even understanding limitations such as data quality and coverage, measures of multidimensional poverty have proven to be relevant policy tools. This paper first ... -
The Research Agenda on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Important and As-yet Unanswered Questions
(University of Oxford, 2018)The application of multidimensional poverty measures is proliferating, in part due to the emphasis in Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions. This paper first ... -
Towards a Global Assets Indicator: Re-assessing the Assets Indicator in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
(University of Oxford, 2018)This paper explains the revision of the assets indicator of the updated global Multidimensional Poverty Index (global MPI), which was launched just before the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September ... -
Incorporating Environmental and Natural Resources within Analyses of Multidimensional Poverty
(University of Oxford, 2018)How can multidimensional poverty measures – that currently encompass social and economic dimensions – be extended to include environmental deprivations that strike the poor simultaneously? And can such extended measures ... -
Walls of Glass: Measuring Deprivation in Social Participation
(University of Oxford, 2018)This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided ... -
Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya Sen: A Review Essay with Reference to Development in Peru
(University of Oxford, 2018)This paper provides an overview of Sen’s revised edition of Collective Choice and Social Welfare (London: Penguin Books, 2017) and examines the relevance of its arguments in the context of Peru. It focuses on three main ... -
Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India 2005/6-2015/16: Still a Long Way to Go but the Poorest Are Catching Up
(University of Oxford, 2018)This paper assesses the change in multidimensional poverty in India from 2005/6 to 2015/16 using data from the NFHS-3 and NFHS-4 surveys. Estimates of changes are disaggregated by age cohort, state and by socio-economic ... -
Multidimensional Inequality and Human Development
(University of Oxford, 2018)The measurement of inequality from a human development perspective is fundamental. We start this paper by briefly introducing the human development approach and its main conceptual basis: the capability approach. We note ... -
Evaluating the Effects of Housing Interventions on Multidimensional Poverty: The Case of TECHO-Argentina
(University of Oxford, 2018)The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the NGO TECHO’s emergency housing programme on multidimensional poverty. It employs a quasi-experimental ‘pipeline’ evaluation design and is based on household survey ... -
The New Global MPI 2018: Aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals
(University of Oxford, 2018)Early in 2018, the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) agreed to adjust and unify their methodologies on poverty ... -
Social Isolation and its Relationship to Multidimensional Poverty
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)While the multidimensionality of poverty is well-recognised, one dimension of poverty which has been often overlooked is weak social connectedness. This paper draws on conceptual, participatory and measurement literatures ... -
The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2018 Revision
(University of Oxford, 2018)Drawing on the past methodological documents since 2010 for MPI-O and MPI-I, and on the global 2018 revision, this document provides a comprehensive guide to the methodology for estimating and reporting the global MPI in ... -
‘Misbehaving’ RCTs: The Confounding Problem of Human Agency
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)This paper argues that the theoretical model of causal inference underpinning RCTs is frequently undermined by the failure of different actors involved in their implementation to behave in ways required by the model. This ... -
Randomized Control Trials and Qualitative Impacts: What do they Tell us about the Immediate and Long-term Assessments of Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty in West Bengal?
(London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2019)This paper is intended to show the strengths, weaknesses and potential complementarities of different methodological approaches to impact assessment. It reports on the approach and findings reported by a randomized control ... -
Randomized Control Trials and Qualitative Evaluations of a Multifaceted Programme for Women in Extreme Poverty: Empirical Findings and Methodological Reflections
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)This paper sets out to synthesize key lessons from studies using alternative methodologies to impact assessment. Drawing on Sen’s capability approach as a conceptual framework, it analyses two pairs of impact assessments ... -
Frontiers of Urban Control: Lawlessness on the City Edge and Forms of Clientalist Statecraft in Zimbabwe
(Wiley, 2019)This article develops the concept of “urban frontier” to explore conflicts over state regularisation of city edge informal settlements in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. It conceptualises the presence of “lawless” urban frontiers ... -
(In)visibilty, Care and Cultural Barriers: The Size and Shape of Women's Work in India
(Ashoka University, 2019)Based on primary data from a large household survey in seven districts in West Bengal in India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying low labor force participation of women. In particular, we try to disentangle the ...