Comments on: How can we improve the way we measure poverty? The UN’s new poverty index (and groovy graphics) http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061 duncan green poverty to power oxfam development Wed, 22 May 2013 17:17:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Leisl http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061&cpage=1#comment-54313 Leisl Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:52:20 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061#comment-54313 What I want to know is whether a new indicator has resulted in any policy changes? It's great that the UN is attempting to capture the experience of poverty more fully, but in reality, has a different definition resulted in different actions (which are more targeted) being taken? What I want to know is whether a new indicator has resulted in any policy changes? It’s great that the UN is attempting to capture the experience of poverty more fully, but in reality, has a different definition resulted in different actions (which are more targeted) being taken?

]]> By: Chris http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061&cpage=1#comment-19593 Chris Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:26:21 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061#comment-19593 Duncan it would seem to me that if we are really interested in what people living in poverty think then it would be a great step forward to start to get their voices more squarely into the picture. New crowd-sourcing technologies such as frontline SMS (http://www.frontlinesms.com/) , Ushahidi (http://www.ushahidi.com/) etc, and strengthening people’s ability to tell their story (http://hub.witness.org/blog) as your recent post on Alanna Shaikh suggests, offer the opportunity to do this. We have suggested to the UNDP HDR authors at a recent meeting here in Melbourne that if we could combine some of the ‘hard’ stats resources such as HDI & MPI, as newly released world bank data (http://data.worldbank.org/) with these ‘voices’, then we might move towards a much richer and more dynamic ‘Barometer of Change’ in which the realities of the the lived experience of people in poverty were more directly shared. Duncan it would seem to me that if we are really interested in what people living in poverty think then it would be a great step forward to start to get their voices more squarely into the picture. New crowd-sourcing technologies such as frontline SMS (http://www.frontlinesms.com/) , Ushahidi (http://www.ushahidi.com/) etc, and strengthening people’s ability to tell their story (http://hub.witness.org/blog) as your recent post on Alanna Shaikh suggests, offer the opportunity to do this. We have suggested to the UNDP HDR authors at a recent meeting here in Melbourne that if we could combine some of the ‘hard’ stats resources such as HDI & MPI, as newly released world bank data (http://data.worldbank.org/) with these ‘voices’, then we might move towards a much richer and more dynamic ‘Barometer of Change’ in which the realities of the the lived experience of people in poverty were more directly shared.

]]> By: Claire http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061&cpage=1#comment-19578 Claire Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:27:53 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061#comment-19578 Hey Duncan, just a quick one to note that the MPI supplements rather than replaces the HDI. Also, there has been mention of two other new indices that will also be included in 20th anniversary publication of the HDI this year, one looking at inequality and one at gender. Would be great to hear more about these as well if anyone out there has more details. Hey Duncan, just a quick one to note that the MPI supplements rather than replaces the HDI.

Also, there has been mention of two other new indices that will also be included in 20th anniversary publication of the HDI this year, one looking at inequality and one at gender. Would be great to hear more about these as well if anyone out there has more details.

]]> By: Stuart Denoon-Stevens http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061&cpage=1#comment-19572 Stuart Denoon-Stevens Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:52:46 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3061#comment-19572 Little worried over the above graphic - according to it South Africa has less than 4 percent living in poverty? Doesn't quite compute with lived reality here... Little worried over the above graphic – according to it South Africa has less than 4 percent living in poverty? Doesn’t quite compute with lived reality here…

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