Impact Initiative - Governance: Recent submissions
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Armed conflict characteristics and its effects on firm exit
(2012)This paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that different characteristics of the armed conflict have over firm exit in Colombia. Using a fixed effects estimation methodology at the plant level ... -
Agricultural production amidst conflict : the effects of shocks, uncertainty and governance of non-state armed actors
(2012)This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small-farmers. We use a unique household survey applied to 4.800 households in four micro-regions of Colombia. The survey collects detailed ... -
Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America: Previous Experience and the Way Forward
(2014)This paper states the need to design a multidimensional poverty index for the Latin America region (LA-MPI) that can monitor poverty trends in a cross-country comparable way, yet is also relevant to the particular regional ... -
Mobilising the Household Data Required to Progress toward the SDGs
(2014)Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be reported annually, but at present data on poverty-related SDGs are not updated frequently, nor are the data always available promptly. This paper reviews the key ... -
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014
(2014)The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an index of acute multidimensional poverty that covers over 100 developing countries. It assesses the nature and intensity of poverty at the individual level, by directly ... -
An Extensive Analysis of GNH Index
(2012)The Gross National Happiness Index is a single number index developed from 33 indicators categorized under nine domains. The GNH Index is constructed based upon a robust multidimensional methodology known as the Alkire-Foster ... -
Shame, Humiliation and Social Isolation: Missing Dimensions of Poverty and Suffering Analysis
(2014)While people living in poverty talk about isolation, shame, and humiliation as being key aspects of their lived experiences of suffering, until recently, there has been no international data on these aspects – making them ... -
Conditions for the most robust multidimensional poverty comparisons using counting measures and ordinal variables
(2012)A natural concern with multivariate poverty measures, as well as with other composite indices, is the robustness of their ordinal comparisons to changes in the indices’ parameter values. Applying multivariate stochastic ... -
Measuring Chronic Multidimensional Poverty: A Counting Approach
(2014)How can indices of multidimensional poverty be adapted to produce measures that quantify both the joint incidence of multiple deprivations and their chronicity? This paper adopts a new approach to the measurement of ... -
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index
(2013)The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to ... -
Social isolation: A conceptual and measurement proposal
(2014)Social isolation is a deprivation of social connectedness. It is a crucial aspect that continues to be named by people as a core impediment for achieving well-being and as a relevant factor for understanding poverty. The ... -
Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 2 - The Framework
(2015)This working paper introduces the notation and basic concepts that are used throughout the OPHI Working Papers 82-91. The Paper has five sections. First we review unidimensional poverty measurement with particular attention ... -
Measuring and Decomposing Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor Using Ordinal Data: A Counting Approach
(2014)Poverty has many dimensions, which, in practice, are often binary or ordinal in nature. A number of multidimensional measures of poverty have recently been proposed that respect this ordinal nature. These measures agree ... -
Towards Frequent and Accurate Poverty Data
(2014)It is increasingly acknowledged that data availability plays a crucial role in the fight against poverty. Poverty data has increased in both quantity and frequency over the past 30 years, but still lags behind the data ... -
Reducing Multidimensional Poverty and Destitution: Pace and Patterns
(2014)This brie!ng examines how multidimensional poverty changed in 34 countries covering 2.5 billion people. It documents trends in poverty and destitution across and within these countries, and according to di"erent kinds of ...