The department is a lively community that is recognised internationally as one of the top centres for research and teaching in development studies.

Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our courses offer excellent training for a career in international development or for advanced study, and attract students of the highest calibre from across the world.
“I had waited for 10 years before my dream to study in Oxford became a reality and the experience was truly beyond expectation”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
Our students are taught to develop as critical and independent thinkers and when they leave us they are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about real change.
“My time at Oxford strengthened my critical analysis and provided me with a unique interdisciplinary grounding in history, politics and economics that has equipped me well in dealing with public policy issues and program development strategy.”
The governments of Costa Rica, Honduras and the Dominican Republic have all announced plans to develop Multidimensional Poverty Indices using the methodology developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at ODID.
The Alkire Foster (AF) method has already been used by the governments of Bhutan, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines to create a national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), South Africa used it to develop a census-based MPI, China and Brazil have explored regional MPIs, and a number of other countries are close to releasing new measures, including Chile, El Salvador and Vietnam.
The announcements follow a meeting of the Multidimensinal Poverty Peer Network in Berlin last month, which brought together Vice Presidents, Ministers and Deputy Ministers from 25 governments to share conceptual, methodological and practical information on the implementation of multidimensional poverty measures in their respective countries.