Towards a Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: an application to Middle-Income Countries Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 11:00am - 12:00 pm ET
Tue, 5 November, 2024
11:00am - 12:00pm
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
11:00am - 12:00 pm ET
We are pleased to invite you to a joint virtual event with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) on Tuesday, November 5th, 2024. This week's seminar will feature SDG Specialist at UNDP-LAC and Director of Social Impact at VR (Brazil) Adriana Conconi and researchers Fanni Kovesdi, Hector Moreno, Ricardo Nogales, and Monice Pinilla-Roncancio presenting their article, "Towards a Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: an application to Middle-Income Countries."
Their article builds an extensive literature overview of plausible dimensions and indicators that are desirable from a theoretical perspective to measure multidimensional poverty. Methodologically, it draws upon the dual cut-off counting approach for poverty measurement developed by Alkire & Foster (2011), which is also the methodological underpinning of global and national MPIs. The study uses data from Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Colombia, aiming to estimate the MIP-MIC and compare the results across countries.
About the Speakers:
Adriana Conconi is the Director of Data and Impact Evaluation at VR and SDG Specialist at UNDP. She has extensive experience in researching poverty measurement and development economics. Her research focuses on multidimensional poverty indices (MPIs), using Conconi's work that often applies the Alkire-Foster method, advancing frameworks that help policymakers and researchers assess poverty in middle-income and developing countries more accurately. Her previous work experience includes Director of Strategy at Harvard’s Center for International Development, Executive Director at Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, and The World Bank on Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) and Poverty and Social Protection Cluster. Conconi received a bachelor's and master's degrees in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata and a master’s in Public Administration/International Development from Harvard University.
Fanni Kovesdi is a Research and Development Manager at OPHI where she has worked since 2018. She leads research projects that focus on measuring multidimensional poverty and wellbeing in contexts of high human development or explore how to improve the quality of multidimensional poverty data globally. Some of her recent work includes convening a high-level expert workshop, conducting a scoping study of household surveys, designing and piloting a new ‘moderate poverty index’ for middle-income countries, and piloting a wellbeing index for the UK. Fanni also works with international agencies and national governments in Europe and Central Asia, supporting the design of national MPIs. She also leads OPHI’s annual Summer School, and coordinates OPHI’s research fundraising. Previously at OPHI, she led the first large-scale trends analysis of OPHI’s global Multidimensional Poverty Index for 80 countries, and the first disaggregation of the index by ethnicity. She was a regular contributor to the annual global MPI reports, and has collaborated on projects with the World Bank, UNDP, and UNHCR.
Hector Moreno is an applied economist who has a doctorate from the Paris School of Economics (PSE). His interests span economic mobility, income distribution, measurement, public economics, and education. He holds two master's degrees in economics, one from PSE (MRes in Quantitative Economics) and another from UPF (MSc in Economics). Moreno’s recent experience includes teaching statistics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (SciencesPo Paris) and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He currently works at OECD-OCDE as a Statistician across teams in the Development Cooperation Directorate, including the OECD Peer Reviews team, the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, and the Poverty and Inequalities team. His work focuses on well-being metrics and the evaluation of public policies, particularly in the fields of development economics, applied economics, impact evaluation, and labor economics. Some of his research has been published in book chapters and international academic journals.
Ricardo Nogales is a Research Associate at OPHI, conducting research into the robustness and stability of multidimensional poverty measures, as well as econometric analyses of poverty. He also works in outreach, training governments in how to build multidimensional poverty indices (MPIs). Before joining OPHI in May 2018, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Finance of the Universidad Privada Boliviana in Bolivia, a Research Assistant at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Switzerland, and a Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Applied Economics of the University of Geneva. He has conducted research in the field of development economics, poverty reduction, and human development with the IDB, GIZ, UNDP, ILO, World Bank, Oxfam, and IDRC.
Monica Pinilla-Roncancio is a researcher at OPHI. She has worked at OPHI since 2014 and was formerly a Director of Outreach leading the OPHI team in supporting governments in building national multidimensional poverty indices in Latin America, East Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. From 2016 to 2018, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universidad de los Andes and remains there as an Assistant Professor. She is a trained Physiotherapist. She holds a doctorate in Social Policy from University of Birmingham, a masters in Economics from Universidad del Rosario, and a masters in Health Economics, Policy and Law, from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
About the Series:
The Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP) at George Washington University and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) are pleased to host a special seminar series on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (global MPI). Goal 1 of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end poverty in all its forms and dimensions. The global MPI offers a tool to make progress towards this goal.
Bringing together the academic and policy spheres, this series of seminars will highlight topics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and caste, the statistical capacity of nations, social protection, the use of geospatial mapping in tracking poverty, poverty and refugees, and evaluating whether we're on track to meet UN SDG Goal #1. The sessions will also include work that applies the global MPI methodology, the Alkire Foster method, to innovative measures.
The seminars are taking place online on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. ET. They are open to everyone focused on improving the lived experience of those who are deprived.