Impact Initiative - Governance: Recent submissions
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Does the Hunger Safety Net Programme Reduce Multidimensional Poverty? Evidence from Kenya
(University of Oxford, 2019)The purpose of this research is to evaluate the short-term impact and long-term sustainability of Kenya’s Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP). Difference-in-difference and propensity score matching estimations are used to ... -
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities
(OPHI/UNDP, 2019)The 2019 global MPI publication Illuminating Inequalities released on 11 July 2019 sheds light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, revealing inequalities across countries ... -
Evaluation of Programs with Multiple Objectives: Multidimensional Methods and Empirical Application to Progresa in Mexico
(University of Oxford, 2019)Development programs and policy interventions frequently have multiple simultaneous objectives. Existing quantitative evaluation approaches fail to fully accommodate this multiplicity of objectives. In this paper we adapt ... -
The Role of Inequality in Poverty Measurement
(University of Oxford, 2019)The adjusted headcount ratio, or MPI, is widely used by countries and international organizations to track multidimensional poverty and coordinate policy. Several characteristics have encouraged its rapid diffusion: ... -
The MPI as a Tool for Achieving Poverty Reduction Goals
(University of Oxford, 2019)This Policy Briefing describes the process of creating the Multidimensional Poverty Index of Costa Rica as an official tool for measuring poverty, guiding the allocation of resources, and monitoring and evaluating social ... -
How to Explain the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty to the General Public: Workshop for Journalists in Colombia
(University of Oxford, 2019)In 2011, Colombia made an important change to the way in which poverty is measured. Together with a review of the methodology to measure monetary poverty, the government introduced a new methodology for measuring poverty ... -
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2018
(University of Oxford, 2018)The 2018 global Multidimensional Pov-erty Index (MPI) is an internationally comparable measure of acute poverty for 105 countries, covering 5.7 billion people (approximately 77% of the global pop-ulation). ... -
Does Aid Reduce Poverty?
(University of Oxford, 2018)Fifty years of literature on aid effectiveness has so far proven inconclusive. Two main challenges still require some attention. The first is to properly identify the causal effect of aid on poverty alleviation. To address ... -
On Data Availability for Assessing Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty
(University of Oxford, 2018)Data availability plays a crucial role in the fight against poverty. Yet, it lags behind the data available on most other economic phenomena. We catalogue and review existing data availability aiming to break the cycle of ... -
The Measurement Properties of Multidimensional Poverty Indices for Children: Lessons and Ways Forward
(University of Oxford, 2018)This paper considers the measurement properties of indices used to measure multidimensional child poverty in the developing world. Two indices are considered in detail: the Alkire Foster method (Alkire & Foster 2010) and ... -
Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Uni-dimensional Income Poverty: an Evidence of Stability Analysis from China
(Springer, 2018)In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty using the panel data from multiple waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We use first order ... -
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 ...