WG 11.1: WG Multidimensional Poverty - Session I

Time: Wednesday, 25/Jun/2008: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Session Chair: Meera Tiwari
Session Title: Searching Multidimensional Poverty

See the session report. 

Presentations

Counting and Multidimensional Poverty
Sabina Alkire and James Foster
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), United Kingdom; Vanderbilt University

Beyond ‘Business as Usual’: Does International Development Need a Concept of Wellbeing?
J. Allister McGregor
University of Bath, United Kingdom

After 2015: What Could Development Studies Be?
Andrew Sumner and Michael Tribe
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom


WG 11.2: WG Multidimensional Poverty - Session II

Time: Wednesday, 25/Jun/2008: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Session Chair: Andrew Crabtree
Session Title: Multidimensional Poverty and the MDGs

Presentations

Weighting Dimensions of Poverty based on People's Priorities
Hans De Kruijk and Martine Rutten
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Ministry of Finance, The Netherlands

Human Development in Southeast Europe
Edvard Jakopin and Sonja Tontic
Republic Development Bureau, Serbia

A Global Measurement Approach versus a Country-Specific Measurement Approach – Do They Draw the Same Picture of Child Poverty? The Case of Vietnam
Keetie Roelen, Franziska Gassmann and Chris de Neubourg
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, The Netherlands

In Search of Policies for Those Likely to Be Left Behind by the MDGs
Meera Tiwari
International Development Studies, University of East London, United Kingdom


WG 11.3: WG Multidimensional Poverty - Session III

Time: Thursday, 26/Jun/2008: 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Session Chair: Andrew Sumner
Session Title: Sustainable Development and Multidimensional Poverty    

Presentations

From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: What are We Sustaining? What Have We Ignored? The Specific Case of the Environment, Mental Health and Climate Change.
Andrew Crabtree
Copenhagen Business School, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Denmark

Toward MDG7 Through Development Aid or Emissions Trading?
Charlotte Kautt
University of Zurich, United Kingdom

Identifying the Capability-Poor: Problems and a Proposal
Ortrud Lessmann
Germany


WG 11.4: WG Multidimensional Poverty - Session IV

Time: Saturday, 28/Jun/2008: 9:00am – 12:30pm
Session Chair: David Durkee
Session Title: Beyond the Traditional: MDP and the MDGs    

Presentations

Exploring the Potential of Mobile Internet Services in Emerging Countries: a Look towards the Future
Gianluca C. Misuraca
EPFL, Switzerland

Water and Sanitation for All? Rural versus Urban Provision
Susanna Wolf
UNECA, Ethiopia

Why to include Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in the next set of Development Goals

Johanna Witt
University of East London, United Kingdom

Technology Transfer for Women in Nepal: Applying Anderson's Framework and Implications for the MDGs
Jessica L. Haydon
University of East London, United Kingdom

Pirates, Prostitutes and What’s after the MDG’s
David Durkee
The University of East London, United Kingdom