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Multidimenisonal Poverty around the world: Unmasking Disparities
YSI South Asia Webinar on Capitalism
Start time:
November 11, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
EST
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
Speakers
Sabina Alkire
Dr.
Description
This session of the webinar series will feature Dr. Sabina Alkire. She is the Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. The full title of her lecture is Multidimenisonal Poverty around the world: Unmasking Disparities by Ethnicity, Place Gender.
Abstract
‘Multidimensional poverty indices such as the global MPI measure deprivations people experience directly, and so they can be disaggregated by any variables for which datasets are representative. They also draw on microdata, including data on individual household members. This seminar will present the intuitive findings of the October 2021 global MPI report, and also point out, for those interested, how the disparities it reveals across ethnic groups and the gendered and intrahousehold analyses make use of these facets of the datasets.
Biography
Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. Previously, she worked at the George Washington University, Harvard University, the Human Security Commission, and the World Bank. She has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Together with Professor James Foster, Sabina developed the Alkire-Foster (AF) method for measuring multidimensional poverty, a flexible technique that can incorporate different dimensions, or aspects of poverty, to create measures tailored to each context. With colleagues at OPHI this has been applied and implemented empirically to produce a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The MPI offers a tool to identify who is poor by considering the range of deprivations they suffer. It is used to report a headline figure of poverty (the MPI), which can be unpacked to provide a detailed information platform for policy design showing how people are poor nationally, and how they are poor by areas, groups, and by each indicator.
Format
Dr. Alkire will be speaking for the first 45 minutes. We will then be holding a Q&A Session.
This session is part of the larger project:
Dissecting Capitalism: Its past, present and future
This series aims to explore the tenets of capitalism over the fabric of time and examine its influence on the global economy and social classes.
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Organizers
Attendees
Shyam Soundararajan
Arun Balachandran
Sattwick Dey Biswas
Hudda Luni
Maeva Bennetto
Shahid Raina
Minh Tam Bui
akash bhatt
Ajibola Akanji
Alisa Illarionova
Dilanur KantoÄŸlu
Muez Ali
Vidya Bharathi Rajkumar
Ebele Nwokoye
ECEM OKAN
Raul Zambrano
Celso Gonzalez
Alison Vasconez
farhad gohardani
Harjeet Dhura
Albert Ludi Angkawibawa
Rocio Lozano
Senthil Kumar
Vijay Ram S
Ruchira Bhattacharya
Christopher Pomwene Shafuda
Marc Jacquinet
Borys Cieslak
Samyak Jain
Srishti Goyal
Christiane Hitzemann
Henrique Paixão
Elizabeth. Z Awomi
mayumi tabata
Judit Ricz
Luana Ayala
Bidhi Adhikari
Eva Lickert
Behzod Alimov
JoaquÃn Alvarez
Pablo Amsler
Krshtee Sukhbilas
Xinwen Zhang
Nan Hao
Hazem Mohamed
shailza sharma
Rochele Padiachy
Bivash Panday
Fabio Bayro Kaiser
Yeshwant P
Aneesha Chitgupi
Mohammed Wakif Amin Hussain
Komal Shakeel
Ezgi KOPUK
Farwa Naqvi
Vinay Jha
Syeda Ulya Ehsen Kazmi
Subhasree Ghatak
GOVINDAPURAM SURESH
Ashen Hirantha
Jeevan Maharjan
Muhammed Ramees
Ankita Tripathi
Sankar Varma
Mihir Naik
Diana Soeiro
Amol Shaila Suresh
Surjit Vikraman
Bhuwan Paudel
Julia Gutierrez
Samridhi Agarwal
Namira Shameem