Summer School 2016 on Multidimensional Poverty Analysis
Time :2016.08.01-13

Organised by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, in collaboration with Beijing Normal University (BNU) and theInternational Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC) , the 2016 Summer School will be hosted at Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China, 1-13 August 2016.

The purpose of this intensive summer school is to provide a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to some techniques of measuring multidimensional poverty with a strong emphasis on the Alkire Foster method.  Participants will revise axiomatic poverty measures, and will get an overview of different techniques of multidimensional poverty measurement and which problems they are best suited to solve. The empirical motivation for measuring multidimensional poverty will be presented as well as the conceptual motivation, drawing on Amartya Sen’s capability approach.

The following topics will be covered:  

  • Axiomatic approaches to unidimensional and multidimensional poverty;
  • Methodologies to analyse multidimensional poverty – dashboard, stochastic dominance, information theory, fuzzy set, multiple correspondence analysis, unmet basic needs and counting approaches – and the problems each methodology best solves;
  • The Alkire Foster methodology of multidimensional poverty measurement;
  • Selection of parameters – purpose, unit of measure, dimensions, indicators, cut-offs and weights;
  • Estimation of multidimensional poverty and interpretation of the results;
  • Subgroup decomposition and mapping;
  • Multidimensional poverty dynamics;
  • Robustness tests, standard errors, and statistical inference
  • Econometric analysis of multidimensional poverty;
  • Institutions, policies, and communication.

The summer school will be led by the Researchers and Director of OPHI. Instructors include Sabina Alkire, James Foster, John Hammock, Adriana Conconi, Ana Vaz, Bilal Malaeb, BoubaHousseini, Christoph Jindra, Christian Oldiges, Gisela Robles Aguilar, Monica Pinilla, Usha Kanagaratnam & Yangyang Shen.

Course Format:

The summer school will consist of 10.5 days of instruction and working group sessions, taught in English. Each participant needs to bring a laptop with Stata with them to do the problem sets. Throughout the summer school, participants will be actively involved in discussions and working through problem sets, and will be invited to present their research work as well as share their experiences.

Dates and Location:

Location: Building 9-402

Period: August 1st-13th, 2016

Sessions begin promptly and are as follows:

August1th to August5th:Lectures 9:00am-1:00pm; 2:00pm-6pm.

August6th: Lectures 9:00am-1:00pm

August7th: Field trip (whole day)

August8th to August12th: Lectures 9:00am-1:00pm; 2:00pm-6pm.

August13th: Final exam (non-compulsory)9am-1:00pm

Special Event:

An optional field trip to China’s anti-poverty policy targeting village (in Chengde City) will be offered on August 7th.

Contact Information:

International Summer school 2016, Business School of Beijing Normal University

Coordinator: CanYang, E-mail: OBPHISS@bnu.edu.cn

Tel: +86-10-58802941



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