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Sabina Alkire is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on multidimensional poverty, with contributions spanning social sciences, sociology and political science, and public health domains.

Their recent publications cover various aspects of poverty measurement and analysis. Notable papers include:

  • Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6-2015/16: Insights and oversights of the headcount ratio, 2021, World Development
  • Revisions of the global multidimensional poverty index: indicator options and their empirical assessment, 2020, Oxford Development Studies
  • Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?, 2021, Social Science & Medicine

Additional relevant research includes:

  • How Poor Are People With Disabilities? Evidence Based on the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2020, Journal of Disability Policy Studies
  • Consolidating and improving the assets indicator in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022, World Development

Alkire's work intersects with a variety of research topics, including:

  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Their frequent coauthors include Ricardo Nogales, Nicolai Suppa, Jakob Dirksen, Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio, and Usha Kanagaratnam. These collaborations have supported research published predominantly in venues such as World Development, International Journal for Equity in Health, Sustainability, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and Social Science & Medicine.

Alkire has contributed to book publications, notably with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, where their work appears in:

  • A Multi-Country Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Contexts of Forced Displacement, 2021
  • Multidimensional Poverty, Gender, and Forced Displacement: A Multi-Country, Intrahousehold Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021

The breadth of Alkire's scholarship addresses key issues in poverty measurement, social equity, and development challenges. Their research framework combines quantitative indices with social and health-related dimensions to provide a multidimensional understanding of poverty within various populations.

Best Publications

  • Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement

    Sabina Alkire;James Foster;James Foster

  • Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries

    Sabina Alkire;Maria Emma Santos

  • The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

    Sabina Alkire;Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Amber Peterman;Agnes R. Quisumbing

  • Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index

    Sabina Alkire;Maria Emma Santos;Maria Emma Santos

  • Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

    Sabina Alkire

  • Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis

    Sabina Alkire;James Foster;Suman Seth;Maria Emma Santos

  • Dimensions of Human Development

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  • Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement

    Sabina Alkire;James Foster;James Foster

  • A Conceptual Framework for Human Security.

    Sabina Alkire

  • Why the Capability Approach

    Sabina Alkire

  • Agency and empowerment : a proposal for internationally comparable indicators

    Solava Ibrahim;Sabina Alkire

  • The capability approach : concepts, measures and applications

    Flavio Comim;Mozaffar Qizilbash;Sabina Alkire

  • Choosing Dimensions: The Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty

    Sabina Alkire

  • Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and How?

    Sabina Alkire;Suman Seth

  • Subjective Quantitative Studies of Human Agency

    Sabina Alkire

  • Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

    James E. Foster;Sabina Alkire

  • A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement & Beyond

    Sabina Alkire;Maria Emma Santos

  • Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014

    Sabina Alkire;Mihika Chatterjee;Adriana Conconi;Suman Seth

  • Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014: Brief Methodological Note and Results

    Sabina Alkire;Adriana Conconi;Suman Seth

  • A Short Guide to Gross National Happiness Index.

    Karma Ura;Sabina Alkire;Tshoki Zangmo;Karma Wangdi

  • Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts

    Sabina Alkire

  • Choosing dimensions: the capability approach and multidimensional poverty. CPRC Working Paper No. 88.

    S. Alkire

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute
Amber Peterman
Amber Peterman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lincoln C. Chen
Lincoln C. Chen China Medical Board

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