1. Institute

University of Oxford

2. Programme

Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)

3. Course

Capability Approach & Measuring Multidimensional Poverty

4. Training Materials

Session 1: Background: Axioms in Poverty Measures

• Unidimensional Poverty Measurement: Axioms, Measures, and Dominance.
• Why Multidimensional Poverty Measures?
• Properties of Axioms for Multidimensional Poverty Measures.

Session 2: Alkire and Foster Methodology

• Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Measure.

Session 3: Empirical Implementations

• Case Studies – The global MPI, Mexico, Colombia.
• Normative Issues in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.
• Stata Features.

Session 4: Features of AF: Decomposition and Time Analysis

• AF Measure Analysis Issues II: Time Decompositions of A-F Measures.
• AF Measure Analysis Issues III: Population Subgroup Decomposition and Dimensional Breakdown: Methods and Policy Implications.
• AF Measure Analysis Issues IV: Redundancy, Correlation, Complementarity, Subjective Scales Validation (Uses of Principal Components & Factor Analyses).

Session 5: Robustness and Dominance of AF Measure

• Multidimensional Stochastic Dominance.
• AF Measure Analysis Issues I: Robustness Analysis for the Alkire–Foster Measures.
• Computing Standard Errors for A-F Measures.
• Introduction to the Capability Approach.
• Ongoing Debates and Research Topics.
• The Politics of Multidimensional Poverty.
• Review of the Course.

5. General Readings

6. Reference

Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) – Online Training Portal