Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
OPHI's headquarters
Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford Photo: Rob Judges |
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| Abbreviation | OPHI |
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| Motto | Our purpose: To build a multidimensional economic framework for reducing poverty grounded in people's experiences and values |
| Formation | 1 May 2007 |
| Legal status | Initiative |
| Purpose | Human development economic research centre |
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Professional title
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Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative |
| Headquarters | University of Oxford |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 51°45′21″N 1°15′05″W / 51.755875°N 1.251386°W |
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Director
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Sabina Alkire |
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Parent organization
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Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford |
| Website | www |
| Remarks | OPHI's advisory committee: Sudhir Anand, Tony Atkinson Amartya Sen and Frances Stewart |
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is an economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, England, that was established in 2007.
The centre was established in 2007. In 2010, OPHI developed the Multidimensional Poverty Index for the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report. Since then OPHI has published a Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) annually. OPHI also serves as the Secretariat of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN), a South-South initiative that supports policymakers to develop multidimensional poverty measures. It promotes the use of such measures for more effective poverty eradication efforts at the global, national and local levels.
OPHI aims to build and advance a more systematic methodological and economic framework for reducing multidimensional poverty, grounded in people’s experiences and values. OPHI works towards this by:
OPHI’s work is grounded in Amartya Sen’s capability approach. OPHI works to implement this approach by creating real tools that inform policies to reduce poverty. OPHI’s team members are involved in a wide range of activities and collaborations around the world, including survey design and testing, quantitative and qualitative data collection, training and mentoring, and advising policy makers.
Money alone is an incomplete measure of ‘poverty’. Human development is more about giving people the opportunities to live lives they value, and enable them to achieve their own destiny. This goes beyond material resources – as people value many other aspects of life – and also focuses on what people are able to be and to do. OPHI has identified five ‘Missing Dimensions’ of poverty that deprived people cite as important in their experiences of poverty. To call attention to these ‘missing dimensions’, and to use them as a guide to policy, better data are needed.
Objective
OPHI promotes collection and analysis of data on five ‘missing dimensions’ of poverty:
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