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Alkire obtained her Bachelors at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign in Sociology/Premed. After a time of volunteer work in South Asia, she studied Theology in the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, completing a one-year Diploma (with a distinction in Islam), then an MPhil in Christian Ethics (with a thesis on the Concept of Poverty in the World Bank, as compared to the Social Encyclicals), then an MSc in Economics for Development (with a thesis on Measuring Capabilities of Amartya Sen), then a DPhil in Economics (later published as Valuing Freedoms. The thesis was co-supervised by John Finnis and drew on Finnis’ New Natural Law Theory to specify the concept of capabilities from Amartya Sen’s work, with field work on projects of income generation for poor and destitute women in Pakistan).
At the World Bank Alkire worked on a project advised by Professor Amartya Sen on Culture and Poverty – looking at how to tailor poverty projects to cultural and spiritual values. She served as Research Writer on the Commission on Human Security co-chaired by Amartya Sen, which articulated the need to protect human lives from critical and pervasive threats – which arise from poverty as well as from war and conflict. She then joined the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard which Sen advised, and obtained support from the World Bank to study domain-specific measures of women’s agency in India. During this period she was also ordained as deacon and then worker-priest in the Anglican Church (UK), and served as founding Secretary of the Human Development and Capability Association, which takes forward Amartya Sen’s and Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach across disciplines and countries, mainly driven by junior scholars in universities and social movements.
In 2007 the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) was launched in the University of Oxford by Alkire with co-Founder John Hammock (former President of Oxfam America, Womens World Banking, and the Famine Centre at Tufts University). Alkire, with James Foster (renown economics and author of the most highly-cited paper on monetary poverty measurement) proposed a new methodology to measure multidimensional poverty, and better capture the experience of poverty as poor people articulate it. With post-docs in OPHI, Alkire developed the empirical methodologies to apply this work and with Maria Emma Santos, post-doc from Argentina, co-designed with UNDP the global Multidimensional Poverty Index that continues to be jointly issued by UNDP and OPHI to this day.
From 2008 Alkire has had the privilege to be associated with the Royal Government of Bhutan’s work of measuring Gross National Happiness – an integrated approach to human development that spans health, education, living standards, governance, time use, environment, culture, community, and psychological and spiritual well-being. The official GNH Index of Bhutan officially uses the Alkire Foster measurement methodology, and provides in-depth information on the profile of well-being across a large sample of persons. Alkire had an unexpectedly long stay in Bhutan July 2020 to July 2021, deepening ties there.
In 2009 the government of Mexico became the first country to launch an official permanent statistic of multidimensional poverty; in 2010 Bhutan followed and in 2011, Colombia. In 2013, OPHI launched and became Secretariat of a South-South Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network of policy leaders and statisticians, which now convenes 62 countries and 20 international agencies at high level events at the UN General Assembly and UN Statistics Commission as well as humble phone calls to share stories and challenges. Dozens of countries now officially use a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) based on OPHI’s methodology, and report a multidimensional poverty measure against SDG 1 (as indicator 1.2.2). OPHI has had the privilege to accompany many of these countries both in poverty measurement and policy design, with an extra set of work during the pandemic, given the toll that fell upon the impoverished communities during that period.
Naturally, academic research and publication accompany this work, as does teaching both in the University and in summerschools.
2022
Vollmer, F. and Alkire, S. (2022). ‘Consolidating and improving the assets indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, World Development, No. 158, October 2022.
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., Nogales, R. and Suppa, N. (2022). ‘Revising the global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical insights and robustness’, Review of Income and Wealth, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12573.
Ura, K., Fortacz, A., Alkire, S. and Wangdi, K. (2022). ‘Gross National Happiness’, in Kurtz, L.R. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, vol. 3. Elsevier, Academic Press, pp. 167–184. Link.
Yangyang, S. and Alkire, S. (2022). ‘Exploring China’s potential child poverty’, China and World Economy 30(1): 82–105.
2021
Admasu, Y., Alkire, S. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2021). ‘Multidimensional poverty, gender, and forced displacement: A multi-country, intrahousehold analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa’, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9823.
Admasu, Y., Alkire, S., Ekhator-Mobayode, U.E., Kovesdi, F., Santamaria, J., and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2021). ‘A multi-country analysis of multidimensional poverty in contexts of forced displacement’, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9826.
Alkire, S. and Apablaza, M., with Guio, A.-C. (2021). ‘Chronic multidimensional poverty in Europe’, in Guio, A.-C., Marlier, E., Nolan, B. (eds.) (2021). Improving the Understanding of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe, 2021 edition. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, ch. 16 (pp. 275–291).
Alkire, S. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2020). ‘Revisions of the global multidimensional poverty index: Indicator options and their empirical assessment’, Oxford Development Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2020.1854209.
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2021). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2021’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 51, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Vollmer, F. (2021). Interlinkages Between Multidimensional Poverty and Electricity: A Study Using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Report. The Rockefeller Foundation, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Link.
Alkire, S., Nogales, R., Quinn, N.N., and Suppa, N. (2021). ‘Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?’, Social Science and Medicine, 09 October 2021.
Alkire, S., Oldiges, C. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2021). ‘Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Insights and oversights of the headcount ratio’, World Development, 142, pp. 1–25.
Dirksen, J. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Children and multidimensional poverty: Four measurement strategies’, Sustainability, No. 13, 9108. DOI: 10.3390/ su13169108.
Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Multidimensional poverty and inclusive growth in India: An analysis using growth elasticities and semi-elasticities’, Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 29. Accepted on 10 May 2021. Download the preprint here.
2020
Alkire, S. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty measures as policy tool’, in Beck, V., Hahn, H. and Lepenies, R. (eds.), Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices,
Alkire, S. (2020). ‘The Research Agenda on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Important and As-Yet Unanswered Questions’. In E. Chiappero-Martinetti, S. Osmani, and M. Qizilbash (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach. Cambridge University Press.
Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2020). ‘A birdseye view of well-being: Exploring a multidimensional measure for the United Kingdom’, OPHI Research in Progress 60a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Kovesdi, F. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty across ethnic groups: Disaggregating the global MPI’, OPHI Briefing 55. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty and COVID-19 risk factors: A rapid overview of interlinked deprivations across 5.8 billion people’, OPHI Briefing 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty and vulnerability to COVID-19: A rapid overview of disaggregated and interlinked vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2020). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 49, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Scheja, E. and Vollmer, F. (2020). ‘Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index: Paving the way out of poverty’, OPHI Research in Progress 59a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Mitchell, C., Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2020). ‘Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 50, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kovesdi, F., Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Scharlin-Pettee, S. (2020). ‘Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index and other measures: Towards national poverty reports’, OPHI Research in Progress 57a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Alkire, S. (2020). ‘How poor are people with disabilities? Evidence based on the global Multidimensional Poverty index’, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, published online on 17 May 2020. DOI: 10.1177/1044207320919942.
2019
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2019). ‘The role of inequality in poverty measurement’, OPHI Working Paper 126, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2019). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2019’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 47, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Ul Haq, R. and Alim, A. (2019). ‘The state of multidimensional child poverty in South Asia: a contextual and gendered view’, OPHI Working Paper 127, University of Oxford.
Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A., and Sraboni, E. (2019). ‘Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh’, OPHI Working Paper 125, University of Oxford.
2018
Alkire, S. and Fang, Y. (2018). ‘Dynamics of multidimensional poverty and uni‐dimensional income poverty: an evidence of stability analysis from China’, Social Indicators Research, published online 03 April 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1895-2. (Link). Also as an AAM.
Alkire, S. and Jahan, S. (2018). The New Global MPI 2018: Aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals’, HDRO Occasional Paper, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Link.
Alkire, S. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2018). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Winter 2017- 18: brief methodological note and results’. OPHI MPI Methodological Notes No. 45, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2018). ‘The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2018 revision’, OPHI MPI Methodological Notes 46, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Robson, M. (2018). ‘On data availability for assessing monetary and multidimensional poverty’, OPHI Research in Progress 52a, University of Oxford.
Samuel, K., Alkire, S., Zavaleta, D., Mills, C., and Hammock, J. (2018). ‘Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty’, ODS, 46.1, 83–97.
Thiry, G., Alkire, S. and Schleicher, J. (2018). ‘Incorporating environmental and natural resources within analyses of multidimensional poverty’. OPHI Research in Progress 50a, University of Oxford.
Vaz, A., Alkire, S., Quisumbing, A., and Sraboni, E. (2018). ‘Measuring autonomy: Evidence from Bangladesh’, Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 25(2): 21–51 (link to the PDF).
2017
Alkire, S. and Apablaza, M. (2017). ‘Multidimensional poverty in Europe 2006–2012: Illustrating a methodology’, in Atkinson, A., Guio, A.-C. and Marlier, E. (eds.), Monitoring Social Inclusion in Europe. 2017 edition. Eurostat, ch. 12 (pp. 225–240. Link. (An earlier version of this paper is published in 2016 as OPHI Working Paper 74).
Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2017). ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index – Summer 2017: Brief methodological note and results.’ MPI Methodological Notes 44, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Shen, Y. (2017). ‘Exploring multidimensional poverty in China: 2010 to 2014’. Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare, 25: 161–228.
Alkire, S., Apablaza, M., Chakravarty, S. and Yalonetzky, G. (2017). ‘Measuring chronic multidimensional poverty’. Journal of Policy Modeling, 39(6): 983–1006.
Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles Aguilar, G., and Vaz, A. (2017). ‘Multidimensional poverty reduction among countries in Sub-Saharan Africa’. Forum for Social Economics (DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2017.1310123).
Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., and Vaz, A. (2017). “Changes over time in multidimensional poverty: Methodology and results for 34 countries”. World Development, 94: 232-249. [WD, AAM]
National Statistics Bureau (NSB) of Royal Government of Bhutan, and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. (2017). Bhutan: Multidimensional Poverty Index 2017. NSB and OPHI.
Pinilla-Roncancio, M. and Alkire, S. (2017). ‘How poor are people with disabilities around the globe? A multidimensional perspective.’ OPHI Research in Progress 48a, University of Oxford.
Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2017). ‘Did poverty reduction reach the poorest of the poor? Complementary measures of poverty and inequality in the counting approach.’ Research on Economic Inequality: Poverty, Inequality and Welfare, (ed. by S. Bandyopadhyay), 25: 63–102.
2016
Alkire, S. (2016). “The capability approach and well-being measurement for public policy.” In M. D. Adler and M. Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy. Oxford University Press, 615-644.
Alkire, S. (2016). “Measures of Human Development: Key concepts and properties.” OPHI Working Paper 107, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. (2016). “Towards frequent and accurate poverty data.” (Version 3). OPHI Research in Progress 43c and Data file, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2016). “Dimensional and distributional contributions to multidimensional poverty.” OPHI Working Paper 100, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2016). “Measuring multidimensional poverty: Dashboards, Union identification, and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).” OPHI Research in Progress 46a, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Robles, G. (2016). “Multidimensional Poverty Index – Winter 2016: Brief methodological note and results.” MPI Methodological Notes 43, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2016). “Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor: An ordinal approach.” OPHI Working Paper 99, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Robles, G., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2016). “The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 5-year methodological note.” OPHI Briefing 38.
Alkire, S., Dorji, L, Gyeltshen, S, and Minten, T. (2016). Child Poverty in Bhutan: Insights from Multidimensional Child Poverty Index and Qualitative Interviews with Poor Children. National Statistics Bureau, Monograph Series 9, Bhutan.
Alkire, S., Jindra, C., Robles, G. and Vaz, A. (2016). “Multidimensional Poverty Index – Summer 2016: Brief methodological note and results.” OPHI Briefing 42, University of Oxford.
Alpay, S., Alkire, S., Hammock, J., Bello, A., Robles Aguilar, and Housseini, B. (2016). Multidimensional Poverty Assessment in IDB Sub-Saharan African Member Countries. Report. Economic Research and Policy Department, Islamic Development Bank, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Vaz, A., Pratley, P., and Alkire, S. (2016). “Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index.” Feminist Economics, 22: 264-294. DOI 10.1080/13545701.2015.1108991.
Wang, X., Feng, H., Xia, Q., and Alkire, S. (2016). “On the relationship between Income Poverty and Multidimensional Poverty in China.” OPHI Working Paper 101, University of Oxford.
2015
Alkire, S. (2015). ‘Global Multidimensional poverty Index,’ The Pakistan Development Review, 54(4) part 1 (Winter 2015): 287–299.
Alkire, S. (2015). Well-being, Happiness, and Public Policy. The Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH Research. Thimphu, Bhutan. Link.
Alkire, S. and OPHI. (2015). “Uncovering Poverty’s Complexities.” Published in UK CDS Making Science Work for Development: Impact Stories 2015. http://www.ukcds.org.uk/the-global-impact-of-uk-research
Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2015). “Multidimensional poverty reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and how?” World Development, 72 (2015) 93–108. An earlier version is published as OPHI Working Papers 60, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Foster, J. E., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., and Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Seth, S., and Sumner, A. (2015). “Identifying the Poorest People and Groups: Strategies Using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index.” Journal of International Development, 27(3): 362–387. (Earlier version published as OPHI Working Paper 78, 2014).
Tran, V. Q., Alkire, S., and Klasen S. (2015). “Static and Dynamic Disparities between Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Evidence from Vietnam”. In T. I. Garner and K. S. Short (eds.), Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 23). Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 249 – 281. Previous version published as OPHI Working Paper 97.
Ura, K., Alkire, S., Zangmo, T., and Wangdi, K. (2015). A Compass towards Just and Harmonious Society: 2015 GNH Survey Report. Centre of Bhutan Studies and GNH Research, Royal Government of Bhutan. Available on www.grossnationalhappiness.com
Vaz, A., Pratley, P., and Alkire, S. (2015). “Measuring Women’s Autonomy in Chad Using the Relative Autonomy Index.” Feminist Economics, DOI 10.1080/13545701.2015.1108991.
2014
Alkire, S. and Samman, E. (2014). “Mobilising the Household Data Required to Progress toward the SDGs.” OPHI Working Papers 72, University of Oxford. Also published as SDSN Briefing Paper, September 2014.
Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2014). “Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index.” World Development 59: 251-274.
Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2014). “Inequality Among the MPI Poor, and Regional Disparity in Multidimensional Poverty: Levels and Trends.” OPHI Briefing 25, University of Oxford. Alkire, S. and Vaz, A. (2014). “Reducing Multidimensional Poverty and Destitution: Pace and Patterns.” OPHI Briefing 23, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Conconi, A., and Seth, S. (2014). “Measuring destitution in developing countries: An ordinal approach for identifying linked subset of multidimensionally poor.” OPHI Research in Progress 42a, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Conconi, A., Seth, S., and Vaz, A. (2014). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014: Brief Methodological Note and Results.” OPHI Briefing 19, University of Oxford.
Dorji, C., Namgay, T., Gyeltshen, S., and Alkire, S. (2014). Bhutan: Multidimensional Poverty Index 2012. Bhutan National Statistics Bureau.
Seth, S. and Alkire, S. (2014). “Did Poverty Reduction Reach the Poorest of the Poor? Assessment Methods in the Counting Approach.” OPHI Working Papers 77, University of Oxford.
2013
Alkire, S. (2013). “How to measure the many dimensions of poverty?” In OECD, Development Co-operation Report 2013: Ending Poverty. OECD Publishing.
Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2013) “A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement and Beyond.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 239–257.
Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). “A Comparison of Methods: Identifying BPL Households.” Economic and Political Weekly, 48(2): 49–57.
Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2013). “Selecting a Targeting Method to Identify BPL Households in India.” Social Indicators Research 112(2): 417–446.
Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., et al. (2013). “The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.” World Development 52 (2013) 71-91.
2012
Alkire, S. and Roche, J. M. (2012). ‘Beyond headcount: Measures that reflect the breadth and components of child poverty’, in A. Minujin and S. Nandy (eds.), Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action. The Policy Press, ch. 5.
Alkire, S. and Roche, J. M. (2012). “Beyond headcount: The Alkire-Foster approach to multidimensional child poverty measurement.” In: I. Ortiz, L. M. Daniels, and S. Engilbertsdóttir (eds.), Child Poverty and Inequality: New Perspectives. UNICEF, Division of Policy and Practice. New York, 2012, pp. 18–22. Also published in A. Minujin and S. Nandy (eds.), Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2012, pp. 103–134.
Ura, K., Alkire, S., and Zangmo, T. (2012. GNH and the GNH Index: A Short Guide to Gross National Happiness Index, with Karma Ura and Tshoki Zangmo. Centre for Bhutan Studies Publication. 2012.
Ura, K., Alkire, S., Zangmo, T., and Wangdi, K. (2012). “Gross national happiness and the GNH index. Case Study: Bhutan.” In J. Helliwell, R. Layard, and J. Sachs (eds.), World Happiness Report. The Earth Institute Columbia University, CIFAR, and Centre for Economic Performance, pp. 108-158.
Ura, K., Alkire, S., Zangmo, T., and Wangdi, K. (2012). An Extensive Analysis of GNH Index. Centre of Bhutan Studies.
2011
Alkire, S. (2011). “Multidimensional poverty and its discontents.” In A. Aglietta, S. Alkire,, F. Bourguignon, A. E. Clark, A. Deaton, and C. Senik (eds.), Measure for Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development? Proceedings of the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference. Paris, December 1st, 2010. Agence française de développement, 2011, ch. 2.
Alkire, S. (2011/2012). “Mesurer la pauvreté multidimensionelle: Les limites.” Revue d’économie du développement, 19: 61-104.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). “Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement.” Journal of Public Economics, 95(7–8): 476–487.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2011). “Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement.” Journal of Economic Inequality 9(2): 289–314.
Alkire, S., Foster, J. and Santos, M.E. (2011). “Where did identification go?” Journal of Economic Inequality (JEI) 9: 501-505.
Alkire, S., Roche, J. M., Santos, M. E., and Seth, S. (2011). “Multidimensional Poverty Index 2011: Brief methodological note.” OPHI Briefing 05, University of Oxford.
2010
Alkire, S. (2010). “Human development: Definitions, critiques, and related concepts.” OPHI Working Paper 36, University of Oxford. Also published as Human Development Research Paper 2010/01, UNDP.
Alkire, S. (2010). “Instrumental freedoms and human capabilities.” In: S. L. Esquith and F. Gifford (eds.) Capabilities, Power, and Institutions. The Pennsylvanian State University Press, ch. 1.
Alkire, S. (2010). “The Multidimensional Poverty Index and the Millennium Development Goals: Showing interconnections.” OPHI Briefing 04, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2010). “Designing the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI).” Human Development Research Paper 2010/28, UNDP. Also published as OPHI Working Paper 37, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2010). “Human rights in Mexico: An axiomatic method to select the weights and poverty cut-off used to measure multidimensional poverty.” DRAFT.
Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2010). “Acute multidimensional poverty: A new index for developing countries.” OPHI Working Paper 38, University of Oxford. Also published as Human Development Research Paper 2010/11, UNDP.
Alkire, S., Santos, M. E., Seth, S., and Yalonetzky, G. (2010). “Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights?” OPHI Research in Progress 22a, University of Oxford.
2009
Alkire, S. (2009). ‘Amartya Sen.” In: J. Peil and Irene van Staversen (eds.), Handbook of Economics and Ethics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, ch.63, pp. 484–492. Link.
Alkire, S. (2009). “Development: ‘A misconceived theory can kill’.” In: C. W. Morris (ed.), Amartya Sen: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge University Press, ch. 8.
Alkire, S. (2009). “Multidimensional poverty measures: New potential.” OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” – Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life. Busan, Korea, 27-30 October 2009. DRAFT.
Alkire, S. (2009). “The capability approach as a development paradigm?” In: E. Chiappero- Martinetti (ed.), Debating Global Society Reach and Limits of the Capability Approach. SIPIEL, Milan, pp. 31-60.
Alkire, S. (2009). 中国多维贫困测量:估计和政策含义. 2009.12.
Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2009). “A normative framework for development.” In: S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 1.
Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2009). “Human development and capability approach.” In: S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 2.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). “A memo to CONEVAL.”
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). “Counting and multidimensional poverty.” In: J. von Braun, R. Vargas Hill, and R. Pandya-Lorch (eds.) The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, and Actions. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C., ch. 3. Also published in Journal of Public Economics, 95(7–8) (2011): 476–487
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2009). “The MDGs: Multidimensionality and interconnection.” OPHI Research in Progress 08, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Santos, M. E. (2009). “Poverty and inequality measurement.” In: S. Deneulin and L. Shahani (eds.), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. Earthscan and International Development Research Centre, London, ch. 6.
Alkire, S. and Xiaolin Wang. (2009). “Measurement of multidimensional poverty in China: Estimation and Policy Implications” Chinese Rural Economy 12: 4-10
Alkire, S., Bastagli F., Burchardt T., Clark D., Holder H., Ibrahim S., Munoz M., Terrazas P., Tsang T., and Vizard P. (2009). “Developing the Equality Measurement Framework: Selecting the Indicators.” Research Report 31. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission.
2008
Alkire, S. (2008). “Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index 2008.” OPHI Research in Progress 05a, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. (2008). “Choosing dimensions: The capability approach and multidimensional poverty.” In N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), The Many Dimensions of Poverty. Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, ch. 6.
Alkire, S. (2008). “Concepts and measures of agency.” In K. Basu and R. Kanbur
(eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen. Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement. Oxford University Press, ch. 24.
Alkire, S. (2008). “Development: ‘A misconceived theory can kill’.” In C. W. Morris (ed.), Amartya Sen: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge University Press. 2009, pp. 191-220.
Alkire, S. (2008). “Using the capability approach: Prospective and evaluative analyses.” In: F. Comim, M. Qizilbash, and S. Alkire (eds.), The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 1.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). “Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement. OPHI Working Paper 07, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). “Recuento y medición multidimensional de la pobreza.” OPHI Working Paper 07, University of Oxford. [WP]
Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2008, rev. May 2009). “Measuring multidimensional poverty in India: A new proposal.” OPHI Working Paper 15, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Seth, S. (2008). “Determining BPL status: Some methodological improvements.” Indian Journal of Human Development (IJHD) 2.2 (2008) 407-424.
Alkire, S., Qizilbash, M., and Comim, F. (2008). “Introduction.” In: F. Comim, M. Qizilbash, and S. Alkire (eds.), The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–24.
Alkire, S., Santos, M. E., and Ura, K. (2008). “Gross national happiness and poverty in Bhutan: Applying the GNH Index methodology to explore poverty.” OPHI Research in Progress 04a, University of Oxford.
Comim, F., Qizilbash, M, and Alkire, S. (eds.) (2008). The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications. Cambridge University Press.
2007
Alkire, S. (2007). “A conceptual framework for human security.” Praxis, 22: 5–31.
Alkire, S. (2007). “Choosing dimensions: The capability approach and multidimensional poverty.” In N. Kakwani and J. Silber (eds.), The Many Dimensions of Poverty. UNDP, Palgrave Macmillan, ch. 6.
Alkire, S. (2007). “Measuring agency: Issues and possibilities.” Indian Journal of Human Development, 1(1): 163–169.
Alkire, S. (2007). “Measuring freedoms alongside wellbeing.” In I. Gough and J. A. McGregor (eds.), Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research. Cambridge University Press, ch. 4.
Alkire, S. (2007). “The missing dimensions of poverty data: Introduction to the special issue.” Oxford Development Studies, 35(4): 347-359.
Alkire, S. (2007). “The Missing Dimensions of poverty data: Introduction to the special issue.” OPHI Working Papers 00, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Chen., L. (2007). “Education and public health.” In Human Security in the
21st Century. Tokai University Press.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2008). “Recuento y medición multidimensional
de la pobreza.” OPHI Working Paper 07, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007, revised in 2009). “Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement.” OPHI Working Paper 07, University of Oxford. Also published in Journal of Public Economics 95(7-8) (2011) 476-487.
Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007). “Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement.” OPHI Research in Progress 01a, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S. and Ritchie, A. (2007). “Winning ideas: Lessons from free-market economics.” OPHI Working Paper 06, University of Oxford.
Ibrahim, S. and Alkire, S. (2007). “Agency and empowerment: A proposal for internationally comparable indicators.” Oxford Development Studies: 35(4): 379–403.
2006
Alkire, S. (2006). “Public debate and value construction in Sen’s approach.” In A. Kaufman (ed.), Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems, London: Routledge, ch. 7.
Alkire, S. (2006). “Religion and development.” In D. A. Clark (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 502-510.
Alkire, S. (2006). “Structural injustice and democratic practice: The trajectory in Sen’s writings.” In S. Deneulin, M. Nebel, and N. Sagovsky (eds.), Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach, Dordrecht: Springer, ch. 3.
Alkire, S. and Chen, L. (2006). “Medical exceptionalism in international migration: Should doctors and nurses be treated differently?” In: K. Tamas and J. Palme
(eds.), Globalizing Migration Regimes. Aldershot: Ashgate, ch. 7.
2005
Alkire, S. (2005). “Needs and Capabilities.” In S. Reader (ed.), The Philosophy of Need. (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 57), Cambridge University Press, 229- 252.
Alkire, S. (2005). “Subjective quantitative studies of human agency.” Social Indicators Research, 74(1): 217-260.
Alkire, S. (2005). “Why the capability approach?” Journal of Human Development, 6(1): 115-135.
Alkire, S. and Barham, A. (2005). “Supporting the MDGs: A faith-based movement’s story.” Development 48(1): 122-125.
Alkire, S. and Newell, E. (2005). What Can One Person Do? Church Publishing Incorporated.
2004
Alkire, S and Chen, L. (2004). “Global health and moral values.” Lancet 364: 1069-1074.
Alkire, S. (2004). “A vital core that must be treated with the same gravitas as traditional security threats.” Security Dialogue, 35(3): 359–360.
Alkire, S. (2004). “Concepts of human security.” In L. Chen, S. Fukuda-Parr, and E. Seidensticker (eds.), Human Insecurity in a Global World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 15-40.
Alkire, S. (2004). “Culture, poverty and external intervention.” In V. Rao and M. Walton (eds.), Culture and Public Action: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Development Policy. Stanford University Press, ch. 9.
2003
Alkire, S. (2003). “A conceptual framework for human security.” CRISE Working Paper 02.
Alkire, S. (2003). “From the inside out: Religion and rights-based approaches to reproductive health.” Background paper for UNFPA-Aspen Institute retreat, November 19- 21, 2003.
2002
Alkire, S. (2002). Valuing Freedoms: Sen’s Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction. Oxford University Press.
Alkire, S. (2002). “Dimensions of human development.” World Development, 30(2): 181-205.
Alkire, S. (2002). “Global citizenship and common values.” In N. Dower and J. Williams (eds.), Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader. Edinburgh University Press, ch. 13.
Alkire, S. and Deneulin, S. (2002). “Individual motivation, its nature, determinants and consequences for within group behaviour.” In J. Heyer, F. Stewart, and R. Thorp (eds.), Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation? (WIDER Studies in Development Economics.) Oxford University Press, pp. 51-75.
Dongier, P., Van Domelen, J., Ostrom, E., Rizvi, A., Wakeman, W., Bebbington, A., Alkire, S., Esmail, T., and Polski, M. (2002). “Community-driven development.” In J. Klugman (ed.) A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies. Volume 1: Core Techniques and Cross-Cutting Issues. World Bank, Washington D.C., ch. 9.
2001
Alkire, S. (2001). “The basic dimensions of human flourishing: A comparison of accounts.” In: N. Biggar and R. Black (eds.), The Revival of Natural Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 73–110. Link.
Alkire, S. (2001). “When responsibilities conflict: A natural law analysis of debt forgiveness, poverty reduction, and economic stability.” Studies in Christian Ethics, 14(1): 65–80.