Impact Initiative - Governance: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Diversidades e convergências nos indicadores de saúde no Brasil e em Moçambique
(CEBRAP, 2019)O artigo apresenta um panorama da trajetória recente das desigualdades em saúde nos dois países. Partindo da sistematização de dados produzidos pelos órgãos oficiais, de estatística e saúde, mostra como evoluíram os ... -
Resilience Policymaking in Nepal: Giving Voice to Communities. Workshop Report
(University of Sheffield, 2019)Working in three rural villages in Nepal, this research project examined communities’ perceptions of disaster risksand their views on their ability to mitigate those risksand cope with ... -
Introduction: the Accountability Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities. Learning from Brazil and Mozambique
(CEBRAP, 2019-05-01)Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‑demo‑ cratic settings alike. At the ... -
Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-14)his article examines the effects of one year of exposure to “Learning to Read in a Healing Classroom” (LRHC) on the reading and math skills of second- to fourth-grade children in the low-income and conflict-affected ... -
Promoting Children's Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: Testing Change Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016)
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02)Improving children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries is critically important for breaking the intergenerational transmission of violence and poverty. Yet there is currently a stunning lack of rigorous ... -
Africa's Voices: Using mobile phones and radio to foster mediated public discussion and to gather public opinions in Africa
(2014)This paper presents the findings from a one-year applied research pilot project, Africa’s Voices, run by the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR). Africa’s Voices developed out of CGHR’s ... -
Local Institutions and Armed Group Presence in Colombia
(2014)This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that may shape such effect. Our identification ... -
Ethical consumption in Chile and Brazil
(2012)Ariztia presented the first findings of an ongoing multi-national research project ‘Sustainable Choices’. Chile and Brazil are former developing countries which now have growing ethical consumption movements. Ethical ... -
Religious fragmentation, social identity and cooperation: Evidence from a artefactual field experiment in India
(2015)We study the role of village-level religious fragmentation on intra- and inter-group cooperation in India. We report on data on two-player Prisoners Dilemma and Stag Hunt experiments played by 516 Hindu and Muslim ... -
Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh
(2010)This paper explores the long-term effects of a set of development interventions within the life trajectories of people in rural Bangladesh, using findings from 293 life-history interviews and an accompanying set of focus ...