Human Development, Poverty and Children

Human development – beyond per capita income, through health and education, to enabling productive, creative and autonomous lives – has been a core theme for the Department since the pioneering work of Paul Streeten (QEH Director 1971–1978) and Frances Stewart (Director 1994–2004).

ODID faculty have participated in design, methodology and research for the UNDP's flagship Human Development Report since its foundation in 1990. Building human capabilities necessarily starts with children, so the Department also has a tradition of research collaboration with UNICEF.

Our present strength and reputation in this field is due mainly to two research groups: the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and Young Lives (YL). Research on poverty and vulnerability is also carried out by the International Growth Centre (IGC).

• Young Lives

• Adult Mortality and its Long-run Impact on Households in Tanzania

• Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

• Forecasting HRH in Rural China

• Mission Impossible? Building a Successful Welfare State in the Periphery

• Towards Sustained Improvements in Income Distribution? Lessons from Latin America in the 21st Century

• Measurement of Long-term Economic and Social Development in Latin America

• Ethiopian Rural Household Survey

• Rethinking Agency: A Malian Example

• Imparting Knowledge - Transferring Poverty? 'Traditional' Qur'anic Students in Kano, Nigeria

• Community Governance of Local Public Goods in Fragile States: Community Participation, Social Services Provision and Local and National Governance in Burundi and South Kivu (DRC)

• 'Making the Grade': Why Children Fail at School, and How Formal Schools Fail Children

• Rebuilding Fragile Conflict-Affected States With a Young Majority

• Multi-tiered Environmental Management and Social Well-being: The Case of Lake Titicaca between Peru and Bolivia

• Power and Accumulation in Food Grain Markets: A Case Study of the Pakistani Punjab

• 'It's Easier If We Stop Them Moving': A Critical Analysis of Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Policy in the Case of Southern Benin

• Representation and Practice: Alterity and the Construction of 'Appropriate' Health Care Integration in the Philippines

• Education, Employment, and Mobility: Nepal's Youth and Their Aspirations

• Decentralization, Participatory Governance and Human Capabilities: Prospects for Contentious Participation

• Mobility and Segregation of the Indigenous Population in Mexico

• Sabina Alkire
  Director, OPHI

• Proochista Ariana
  Departmental Lecturer in Global Health and Development

• Paola Ballon Fernandez
  Research Officer in Multidimensional Poverty, OPHI

• Inka Barnett
  Project Officer (Health and Communications), Young Lives

• Jo Boyden
  Professor of International Development and Director, Young Lives

• Gina Crivello
  Research Officer, Young Lives

• Stefan Dercon
  University Professor of Development Economics

• Paul Dornan
  Senior Policy Officer, Young Lives

• David Ehrhardt
  Research Officer

• Andreas Georgiadis
  Quantitative Research Officer, Young Lives

• Priscila Hermida
  Quantitative Research Assistant, Young Lives

• Zoe James
  Education Research Assistant, Young Lives

• Sofya Krutikova
  Quantitative Research Officer, Young Lives

• Virginia Morrow
  Senior Research Officer, Young Lives

• Helen Murray
  Policy Officer, Young Lives

• Maria Jose Ogando Portela
  Quantitative Research Assistant, Young Lives

• Jose Manuel Roche
  Research Officer, OPHI

• Caine Rolleston
  Education Research Officer, Young Lives

• Abhijeet Singh
  Quantitative Research Assistant, Young Lives

• Frances Stewart
  Professor Emeritus in Development Economics

• Emma Wilson
  Research Assistant, Young Lives

• ODID Academics Contribute to New Note on Future of Poverty Research and Policy (14 May, 2012)

• Study Shows Even Poorer Families Choose Private Education over Government Schools in India (9 May, 2012)

• Live Webcast: James E Foster Seminar on New Frontiers in Poverty Measurement (27 Apr, 2012)

• New OPHI Briefing Measures Poverty in Least Developed Countries (17 Apr, 2012)

• OPHI Launches New Projects with Chad Government, ECLAC (16 Mar, 2012)

• OPHI-HDCA Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty Now Taking Applications (14 Mar, 2012)

• New Index of Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Launched (29 Feb, 2012)

• New Young Lives Policy Brief Explores Relationship Between Orphanhood and Vulnerability (23 Feb, 2012)

• DPhil Student Produces Film on Qur'anic Students in Kano, Nigeria (18 Feb, 2012)

• Young Lives Publishes First Book in New Series (16 Jan, 2012)

• OPHI Launches New MPI Data for 2011 at London Policy Forum (8 Dec, 2011)

• DPhil candidate Paul Kadetz Appointed Assistant Professor at Peking University (1 Dec, 2011)

• Human Development Report 2011 Features New OPHI Index Results (4 Nov, 2011)

• OPHI Director Speaks on Bhutan at OECD Meeting (13 Oct, 2011)