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OPHI is a global research centre based at the University of Oxford working on multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis.
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📣 New paper by Jakob Dirksen & Sabina Alkire This chapter outlines the conceptual and ethical motivations of multidimensional poverty measurement, drawing on empirical evidence to highlight the value of multidimensional metrics to measurement and poverty alleviation strategies. 🔗 buff.ly/tZ69OCx

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Join us tomorrow for the final seminar in our OPHI-IIEP series: “Using Machine Learning to Estimate Multidimensional Poverty” from Heriberto Tapia & Moumita Ghorai of UNDP HDRO. 📆 11 Mar ⏰ 16:10 GMT 📍Join in person: Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗 Register to join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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How can we use machine learning to measure multidimensional poverty? Learn more in our final seminar of the term, by Heriberto Tapia & Moumita Ghorai of UNDP's Human Development Report Office. 📆11 Mar ⏰16:10 GMT 📍Join in person: Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗Join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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Last chance to apply! Applications for the OPHI Advanced Course on multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis close this Sunday, 2nd March. Apply today to take the next step in multidimensional poverty analysis. bit.ly/OPHICourse

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Join OPHI & Institute of International Economic Policy next week for our seminar “Multidimensional deprivation among Italian youth”, from Elisabetta Segre & Alessandra Tinto of the Italian Statistics Agency. 📆 4 Mar ⏰16:10 GMT 📍Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗Or join online bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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Join OPHI Director Sabina Alkire and other experienced multidimensional poverty researchers at the OPHI Advanced Course 2025! Apply before 2nd March: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-a...

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Recently, our paper documenting data for the global multidimensional #poverty index went online! Estimates draw on 211 survey datasets (84 countries, 814 regions, up to 4 points of time). @ophioxford.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org #econsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Join OPHI and the Institute for International Economic Policy at GWU next week for our seminar “Commodity Price Shocks and Quality of Employment in Peru”, from OPHI Researcher Beatriz Jambrina. 📆 18 Feb ⏰ 4:10pm GMT 📍Meeting Room 2 at @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗Or join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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The experience of poverty goes beyond a very low income. It also includes things like getting proper nutrition, having access to electricity, and attending school. To capture this broader reality, researchers from Oxford University and the UN developed the Multidimensional Poverty Index.

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Join OPHI and the Institute for International Economic Policy next week for our seminar "Resilient Human Development: Advancing Human Development amidst shocks”, from OPHI Director Sabina Alkire. 📆 11 Feb ⏰ 4:10pm GMT 📍Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗Or join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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Don’t miss TODAY'S launch of the new [email protected] publication! “How to Use National MPIs as a Policy Tool: From Metrics to Policy” shares policymakers’ experiences of developing MPIs & integrating them into public policy. 📆 3 Feb 🕐 14:00 - 15:15 GMT 💻 Join the webinar: bit.ly/webinar-mpi-handbook

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Tomorrow (4 Feb) we begin our seminar series on multidimensional poverty: "Measuring women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries". 📆 4 Feb ⏰ 4:10pm GMT 📍Join us in person (refreshments provided): Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗 Join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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In many countries, more than half of the population faces poverty in multiple dimensions

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Nice piece👇👍 @ophioxford.bsky.social

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Join OPHI and IIEP next week for our first seminar of 2025: "Measuring women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries", from Jhonatan Clausen & Nicolas Barrantes of IDHAL. 📆 4 Feb ⏰ 4:10pm GMT 📍 Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗 Or join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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Applications are open for the OPHI Advanced Course 2025! Led by Sabina Alkire and the OPHI team, this one-week intensive course at the University of Oxford is aimed at those who want to deepen their knowledge and skills in the Alkire-Foster method and the MPI. Apply now: bit.ly/OPHICourse

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We are excited to announce that applications are OPEN for the first OPHI Advanced Course on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis. This one-week course will run 4-8 Aug 2025 at the University of Oxford, UK. For more info & to apply, head to buff.ly/49QJKKs

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Congratulations to Moldova's National Bureau of Statistics on releasing a national Multidimensional Poverty Index for Moldova, in partnership with UNDP Moldova & OPHI. Alongside the release, a workshop was held to introduce the national MPI & accompanying analytical report to the policy community.

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In the next seminar in our multidimensional poverty series, we will hear from Sabina Alkire about findings of the Global MPI 2024, "Poverty amid conflict". 📆 26 Nov ⏰ 4pm GMT 📍 Join in person: Meeting Room A, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford 🔗 Join online: bit.ly/4dOcNP4

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Have you read the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024? This year’s report focuses on ”Poverty amid conflict”. It overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries & over time. Read the full report here: bit.ly/3NOSSFf

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