Impact Initiative - Health: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Are the Children among the Poorest?
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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 ... -
Smart Handpumps: Reliable Service Delivery at Scale in Rural Africa
(2013)The presentation covered the rural water challenge and opportunity in Africa, in particular the problems associated with non-functional handpumps and lack of access to safe water. Studies on the use of smart handpumps in ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
