OPHI – December 2009 Update
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below the OPHI December 2009.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Monthly OPHI Update: December 2009
Welcome to the monthly update of announcements and opportunities by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
ANNOUNCEMENTS
· Piloting of Missing Dimensions Modules in the Philippines
· Amartya Sen Addresses Crowds in Oxford ~ Podcasts Available
· Missing Dimensions of Poverty Survey in Chile
· New Working Papers
· New Research in Progress
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Piloting of Missing Dimensions Modules in the Philippines
OPHI’s collaboration with Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) in the Philippines has continued with the piloting of OPHI’s Missing Dimensions modules among 500 households in one rural and one urban community in and around Manila. The questionnaire that was administered, in Tagalog, is available from OPHI’s website.
[read more...] http://www.ophi.org.uk/subindex.php?id=events0#mdphil
Amartya Sen Addresses Crowds in Oxford ~ Podcasts Available
OPHI organised events with Amartya Sen in Oxford on 19-20 November. Sen spoke at a Roundtable on Economics with politicians, academics and policy makers, and delivered a lecture on The Pursuit of Justice which was chaired by the Chancellor of the University. Both events are now available to watch or listen to via podcasts. These and the full programme, news stories and photos are available from the OPHI website. [read more...] http://www.ophi.org.uk/subindex.php?id=eventsSenJustice
Missing Dimensions of Poverty Survey in Chile
Analysis of OPHI’s dataset on the missing dimensions of poverty in Chile is underway following OPHI’s public call earlier this year. Over 20 proposals from researchers around the world were accepted. Some preliminary results have been presented in Washington, New York and Oxford and OPHI is planning a workshop early next year to continue sharing the findings.
[read more...] http://www.ophi.org.uk/subindex.php?id=events0#mdchile
New Working Papers
‘Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement’. By Sabina Alkire and James Foster. (OPHI WP 32, December 2009). This is a completely revised version of the 2007 paper and includes dominance results, a special section on the ordinal measure M0, and a discussion of the measure as a policy tool. [available at…] http://www.ophi.org.uk/subindex.php?id=publications0
‘A Dissimilarity Index of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity’. By Gaston Yalonetzky. (OPHI WP 28, November 2009). This paper proposes a new multidimensional measure of the inequality of opportunity.
[available at…] http://www.ophi.org.uk/subindex.php?id=publications0#wp28
New Research in Progress
‘Agencia de los padres y logros de los hijos: Explorando el caso de America Latina’. By Maria Emma Santos, Emma Samman, Gaston Yalonetzky (OPHI RP 12a, October 2009). This background paper, prepared for the 2009 Human Development Report in Latin America and the Caribbean, is the first effort to measure agency in the capital cities of three Latin American countries and explores the role of parents’ agency in reducing intergenerational transmission of ‘low outcomes’. (In Spanish).
[available at…] http://www.ophi.org.uk/subindex.php?id=publications0#RP
‘The Pink Streak in a Grey Market: Queerness and Poverty in the Urban Philippines’. By Ryan Thoreson (OPHI RP 13a, December 2009). This paper undertakes an anthropological exploration of the Missing Dimensions among gay communities in the Philippines.
[available at…] http://www.ophi.org.uk/subindex.php?id=publications0#RP
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December 2009 Monthly OPHI Update
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