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

Agency and empowerment : a review of concepts, indicators and empirical evidence by Samman, E, Santos, M

“…<p>This review corresponds to the first part of a background paper for the 2009 Human Development Report in Latin America and the Caribbean on Agency, Empowerment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Latin America.…”

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. …”

Agencia de los padres y logros de los hijos : explorando el caso de America Latina by Santos, M, Samman, E, Yalonetzky, G

“…<p>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’. …”

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. …”

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 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.…”