Poverty is a multidimensional concept and how to measure it properly is still up for debate. This workshop tackles various analytical challenges and their implications in methodological terms, with a host of experts sharing insights drawn from their own research.
Introduction
The Poverty, Public Policy and Inclusive Innovation (PPPII) Research Group at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance will host a one-day workshop on Analytical Challenges for Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Well-being on 19 June 2014.
Since 2010, the UNDP has published a Multidimensional Poverty Indicator based on the counting method developed by Alkire and Foster (2007). The use of this particular method as well as other counting method is nowadays widespread. Many academics and policy makers around the world had applied a counting method to measure multidimensional poverty and well-being. Moreover, governments had increasingly asked for technical assistance on the developing of particular measures of poverty and well-being.
Counting methods are very simple and easy to apply, for that reason the methods are on top of the most widely used measures of multidimensional poverty. Nonetheless, there are several methodological issues that need to be properly and clearly address. The objective of the workshop is to tackle those analytical challenges and their implications in methodological terms, in an environment in which academic and research experts on multidimensional poverty and well-being will share their insights based on their own research.
Registration
The workshop is completely free, but registration is mandatory. Only a limited number of spaces are available and registration will close when the workshop is full. Please register by completing the form HERE.
NB: Participants should arrange and pay for their own subsistence (e.g. lunch, dinner, etc.). For additional enquiries please e-mail poverty@merit.unu.edu Registration deadline: 15 June 2014.
Organisation
The workshop will be organized along a series of oral presentations by invited speakers and a round table discussion at the end of each presentation. Round table discussion is open to any intervention from the participants. The list of participants and the minutes of the event will be circulated among the participants after the event.
Preliminary Programme | |
09.00-10.00 | The influence of missing observations on multidimensional outcomes Dr. Franziska Gassmann |
10.00-10.10 |
Break |
10.10-11.10 |
The critical role of overlapping distributions in conceptual discussions on monetary poverty, multidimensional deprivation, vulnerability and resilience. Prof. Dr. Chris de Neubourg |
11.10-11.20 | Break |
11.20-12.20 |
‘Household wealth and child wellbeing in Tigray: one and the same? Preliminary findings and methodological reflections’ Dr. Keetie Roelen |
12.20-14.00 | Lunch |
14.00-15.00 | Monitoring equitable progress in the post 2015 development goals: connecting the “Leave no one behind” and “share prosperity” principles based on a multidimensional perspective. Dr. José Manuel Roche |
15.00-15.10 |
Break |
15.10-16.10 | Folding and Un-folding multidimensional poverty indicators: An analysis of decomposition technique in a ranking for Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Perú. Andrea Franco-Correa, PhD Fellow |
16.10-16.20 |
Break |
16.20-17.00 | Conclusions |
Speakers
Dr. Franziska Gassmann
Dr. Gassmann is a highly qualified and skilled economist with extensive experience in development economics and related fields. She has demonstrated her expertise as a consultant and researcher in the economics of poverty reduction and income distribution, social policy reform, transition and development. Dr. Gassmann has comprehensive experience with the analysis of large household data sets and with methodologies to analyze poverty and social exclusion and to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of formal and informal social protection systems. She is experienced in the development of monitoring systems, indicators and data collection methods that allow the regular assessment of poverty and the effectiveness and efficiency of social assistance policies. Dr. Gassmann has advised governments on social protection reform issues in numerous projects.
Prof. Dr. Chris de Neubourg
Prof. Chris de Neubourg is a Professor of Public Policy and Management at TiasNimbas Business School at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a Professor of Economics at Maastricht University. He is also affiliated as a Senior Research Fellow at the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI) in Cape Town. He has been previously the Chief of Social and Economic Policy Research at Innocenti Research Center from UNICEF. He was also the founder and academic director of the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. He studied Economics, Sociology and Philosophy at the Universities of Louvain and Antwerp. He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Groningen.
Dr. José Manuel Roche
Dr. José Manuel Roche is currently Head of Research at Save the Children UK. He has a Doctorate from the University of Sussex and over 20 years of research and consultancy experience in international development, poverty analysis, social inequality, human development and the capability approach. He is also currently research associate at OPHI at the Department of International Development in the University of Oxford, and is Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College in the same university. He is also Education Officer and Member of the Executive council (elected 2012-2015) of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), coordinator of the Quantitative Research Thematic Group at the HDCA (since 2009) and research fellow at the Social Science Research Centre (CISOR) in Venezuela. He was awarded the 2007 Wiebke Kuklys Prize, and is a Chevening Alumni (2004/06). José Manuel has undertaken and overseen research on multidimensional poverty analysis, including leading the Multidimensional Poverty Index project at OPHI during 2011-2013. His research in this area includes dynamics of multidimensional poverty; global distribution of multidimensional poverty; global analysis of subnational disparities; child poverty measurement; and multidimensional poverty in Venezuela.
Dr. Keetie Roelen
Dr Keetie Roelen is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team and the Co-Director of the Centre for Social Protection. She is a development economist by training and has extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research. Current research interests include the dynamics of (child) poverty, social protection and the linkages between child protection and social protection. Keetie has worked with many international organisations such as UNICEF, Concern Worldwide and the Family for Every Child, performing research and policy advice work in South East Asia, Southern and Eastern Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. She has designed and delivered lectures and training courses for Masters students, professionals, practitioners and policy makers and her work has been published in the form of peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters, working papers and project reports.
MSc. Andrea Franco-Correa
Andrea is a PhD Fellow at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. Her thesis is entitled: Assessing the robustness of multidimensional poverty measurement: The case of the Alkire-Foster family of indices, with applications to Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. She pursued her studies in Economics and her M. Sc. in Economics at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. As an undergrad she was pretty active in student groups. She had worked for over 8 years as a public official in different institutions in Colombia as the National Department of Planning and the Shelter and Housing Secretary of the Government of Bogota. She has also worked as researcher for the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and for the Embassy of the Netherlands in Colombia. Most of her working experience has been related to Social Development issues but she has also work on transportation sustainability, monitoring and evaluation systems and corruption and governance. She has delivered lectures and tutorial for Bachelor and Master Students in Colombia and the Netherlands.
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