Sabina Alkire

Sabina Alkire
Institution Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Field Welfare economics, development economics, ethics
School or tradition
 Capability Approach
Alma mater Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Influences Amartya Sen
Martha Nussbaum
Contributions Human development theory
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Notes

Sabina Alkire is the Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor in International Affairs at the George Washington University,[1] and the Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), an economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, England, which was established in 2007.[2] She is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.[3]

Alkire and fellow OPHI member economist James Foster developed the Alkire Foster Method, a method of measuring multidimensional poverty. It includes identifying ‘who is poor’ by considering the range of deprivations they suffer, and aggregating that information to reflect societal poverty.[4]

Biography

Alkire's degree in sociology came from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1989. She holds a MPhil in Christian Political Ethics and an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford.[5] She gained her doctorate in economics from Magdalen College, University of Oxford in 1999.[6] Her doctoral thesis, which demonstrated how the work of Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen could be coherently and practically put to use in poverty reduction activities,[7] was later published as a monograph with the title Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction (2002).[8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Renowned Development Economist Sabina Alkire of Oxford to Join GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs". elliott.gwu.edu. George Washington University. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sabina Alkire". ophi.org.uk. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "HDCA fellows". hd-ca.org. Human Development and Capability Association. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Alkire Foster Method". ophi.org.uk. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Sabina Alkire CV" (PDF). ophi.org.uk. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sabina Alkire". ophi.org.uk. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  7. ↑ Alkire, Sabina (1998). Operationalizing Amartya Sen's capability approach to human development: a framework for identifying valuable capabilities (D.Phil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 43087376.
  8. ↑ Alkire, Sabina (2002). Valuing freedoms: Sen's capability approach and poverty reduction. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199245796.

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