Training material for producing national human development reports : the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by Alkire, S, Santos, M

Training material for producing national human development reports : Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) by Alkire, S, Seth, S, Yalonetzky, G, Zavaleta, D

“…The global IHDI was first presented in the 2010 Human Development Report (HDR), using the method described here.…”

Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights? by Alkire, S, Santos, M, Seth, S, Yalonetzky, G

“…<p>This paper presents the results of robustness tests, which show that the Multidimensional Poverty Index, developed by OPHI for the UNDP Human Development Report, is robust to a range of different weights.…”

Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011 : research brief by Alkire, S, Roche, J, Santos, M, Seth, S

“…<p>The Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI is an international poverty measure developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship Human Development Report. The innovative index reflects the multiple deprivations that a poor person faces with respect to education, health and living standards. …”

Multidimensional Poverty Index 2010 : research briefing by Alkire, S, Santos, M

“…<p>The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has developed a new international measure of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI – for the 20th Anniversary edition of the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship Human Development Report. The new innovative index goes beyond a traditional focus on income to reflect the multiple deprivations that a poor person faces with respect to education, health and living standard. …”

Conceptual overview of human development : definitions, critiques, and related concepts by Alkire, S

“…<p>Background paper for the 2010 Human Development Report</p> <p>The purpose of this background paper is i) to synthesize the discussions regarding the concept of human development, so as to inform the 2010 Report’s definition, and ii) drawing on the extensive policy and academic literatures, to propose relationships between the concept of human development and four related concepts: the Millennium Development Goals, Human Rights, Human Security, and Happiness. …”

Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights? by Alkire, S, Santos, M, Seth, S, Yalonetzky, G

“…<p>In 2010, the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report and OPHI released an international Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) that reflects multiple deprivations in education, health and living standard that people face at the same time. …”

The Multidimensional Poverty Index and the Millennium Development Goals : showing interconnections by Alkire, S

“…<p>In July 2010, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report released a new international measure of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). …”

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013 by Alkire, S, Roche, J, Seth, S

“…<p>The Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI is an international poverty measure developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship <i>Human Development Report</i> in 2010. The innovative index reflects the multiple deprivations that a poor person faces with respect to education, health and living standards. …”

Where did identification go? by Alkire, S, Foster, J, Santos, M

“…<p>We recently introduced a general method [1,2] and provided a specific cross Development Report (the MPI) as part of the 2010 Human Development Report [4,11] to complement existing methods. …”

Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013 : brief methodological note and results by Alkire, S, Conconi, A, Roche, J

“…The methodologies used to generate the tables on the MPI and the 104 country briefings and interactive maps available on OPHI’s website, as well as the results published in the 2013 Human Development Report, are presented in this note.</p>…”

Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011 : brief methodological note by Alkire, S, Roche, J, Santos, M, Seth, S

“…The methodologies used to generate the tables on the MPI and the country briefs and maps on OPHI’s website, as well as the results published in the 2011 <i>Human Development Report</i>, are presented in this note. The tables are presented as appendices.…”

Towards a global assets indicator: re-assessing the assets indicator in the global multidimensional poverty index by Vollmer, F, Alkire, S

“…The joint decision of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) to revise the global MPI in 2018 to align it with the Sustainable Development Goals and to best monitor progress towards “leaving no one behind” provided the opportunity to assess the statistical validities of the assets indicator contained in the Original MPI, jointly designed by OPHI and UNDP Human Development Report Office (HDRO) in 2010, and an assets indicator included in an Innovative MPI, which was developed by UNDP HDRO in 2014. …”

The new global MPI 2018: aligning with the sustainable development goals by Alkire, S, Jahan, S

“… <p style="text-align:justify;"> 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 measurement and consider indicator improvements, in order to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…”

Multidimensional poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : levels and trends by Alkire, S, Housseini, B

“…This paper provides an overview of multidimensional poverty – levels and trends – in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), using the most recent estimations and analyses of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which was developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), launched in 2010 and reported in UNDP’s <em>Human Development Reports</em>. The global MPI 2014 covers 37 SSA countries, which are home to 91% of the population of the region. …”