Impact Initiative - Governance: Recent submissions
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A Short Guide to Gross National Happiness Index
(The Centre for Bhutan Studies, 2012)Bhutan’s GNH Index is a multidimensional measure and it is linked with a set of policy and programme screening tools so that it has practical applications. The GNH index is built from data drawn from periodic surveys ... -
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014
(2014)The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an index of acute multidimensional poverty that in 2014 covers 108 developing countries. It assesses the nature and intensity of poverty at the individual level, by directly ... -
Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas: Direct Comparisons Using the Global MPI 2014
(2014)Our rural-urban analysis finds that of the 1.6 billion people identified as MPI poor, 85% live in rural areas – significantly higher than income poverty estimates of 70-75%. We also analyse changes over time by rural and ... -
Destitution: Who and Where are the Poorest of the Poor?
(2014)In 2014 we have used more extreme MPI indicators to shine a light on hundreds of millions of people who each day face grinding hardships difficult for most of us to imagine: the destitute, or poorest of the poor. Across ... -
Where do the World's Multidimensionally Poor People Live?
(2013)This paper asks where do the world’s multidimensionally poor people live? The paper considers how the global distribution of multidimensional poverty differs from the global distribution of income poverty and assesses the ... -
Beyond Headcount: Measures that Reflect the Breadth and Components of Child Poverty
(2011)This paper presents a new approach to child poverty measurement that reflects the breadth and components of child poverty. The Alkire and Foster method presented in this paper seeks to answer the question ‘who is poor’ by ... -
Bhutan: Gross National Happiness and the GNH index
(2012)The phrase ‘gross national happiness’ was first coined by the 4th King of Bhutan, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in 1972 when he declared, “Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product.” The concept ... -
Where do the World's Multidimensionally Poor People Live?
(2013)This paper asks where do the world’s multidimensionally poor people live? The paper considers how the global distribution of multidimensional poverty differs from the global distribution of income poverty and assesses ... -
Decomposing Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics
(2013)A growing interest in multidimensional poverty measures among academics and policymakers has been patent in recent years. Yet the literature has focused on cross-sectional evidence. This paper proposes a novel decomposition ... -
Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index
(2013)This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium ... -
Inequality Among the MPI Poor, and Regional Disparity in Multidimensional Poverty: Levels and Trends
(2014)Poverty reduction is not necessarily uniform across all poor people in a country, or across population subgroups; an improvement overall may yet leave the poorest of the poor behind. In 2014 we use a new measure to analyse ... -
Poverty, participation and aerial cable-cars: a case study of Medellín, Colombia.
(2011)Introduction This paper reflects on partial results of an on-going research project seeking to learn systematically from a set of public transport and urban upgrading interventions fostered by the local government of ... -
Murder capital to modern miracle? The progression of governance in Medellin, Colombia
(2012)The most violent city in the world only twenty years ago, Medellín, Colombia is now a beacon of progressive urban development. Governance and structuration theory provide an analytical framework through which three stages ... -
Impacto del Sistema de Cable Aéreo (Metrocable) Sobre la Accesibilidad en la Comuna #1 de Medellín
(2011)La ciudad de Medellín inauguró en el año 1995 un sistema de Metro, sin embargo en el año 2004 todavía existían algunas zonas de la ciudad con problemas de transporte. Este es el caso de la comuna #1 de Medellín, la cual ... -
Transport, Urban Development and the Peripheral Poor in Colombia: Placing Splintering Urbanism in the Context of Transport Networks
(2013)In rapidly growing cities the evolution of utility and communication infrastructures has enabled the creation of ‘premium networked spaces’ exclusively for wealthier groups thus deepening already large social inequalities. ... -
Aerial Cable-car Systems for Public Transport in Low-income Urban Areas: Lessons from Medellin, Colombia
(2011)In 2004 the first urban aerial cable-car public transport system was introduced in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The imaginative application of ski-slope technology to high-gradient, low-income urban areas attracted ...