ODID Oxford January: commentary and research
Vacancy: Office Coordinator. Deadline: 13 April.
ODID Annual Report 2025: The ODID Annual Report 2025 is now available online, detailing the highlights of the 2024-2025 academic year. Read it here
John Gledhill and Carlos Vargas-Silva have written for the ODID blog: Bad Bunny’s halftime touchdown: how music becomes a play in the political arena.
Adeel Malik has written with Jamal Ibrahim Haidar for Project Syndicate on Reimagining Gulf Security.
Olivier Sterck writes in The Conversation: Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality.
Nikita Sud has a new article published by The Conversation: The world’s largest climate finance deal was built to flounder: why funding fails to reach the front‑line.
Short course: OPHI Summer School: Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis
Monday 20 July – Friday 31 July 2026, Universidad Latina, San José, Costa Rica. Led by OPHI Director Sabina Alkire and the OPHI Team, this course is a great opportunity to learn from researchers and academics with extensive experience of developing and implementing MPIs and other multidimensional measures. Details and apply
New publications
Favara, M., Mihaylova, J. and Sánchez, A. (2026) ‘When choice matters: The asymmetric effects of precommitment implementation on healthy food choice’, Journal of Economic Psychology, 114, 102889.
Fu, X. (with W. Wei) (2026) ‘Building High Involvement Work Systems in the Digital Era: Employee Experience-Oriented Digital HRM and Employee Involvement’, Human Resource Management, 1–21.
Fu, X. (with J. Zhang, C. Ai, and X. M. Fu) (2026) ‘Digitalisation of International Trade in Intellectual Properties: An Approach Based on the Utility Theory of Technology Value’, The World Economy, 1–15.
Fu, X. (with Q. Qiao) (2026) ‘Innovation systems and evolutionary economics: Honoring Richard Nelson through evolutionary plasticity and insights from China’, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 53, 35-49.
Gokhale, N. (with K. B. Nielsen) (2026) ‘Christian environmental activism in a Hindu majoritarian context’, chapter in Religion and Ecological Crisis: Responses from Asia (M. H. Hansen and K. B. Nielsen, eds), Leiden University Press.
Guadarrama, C. (with Y. Liu) (2026) Good students, mimics and laggards: Policy lessons for closing electricity access gaps in Africa, Energy Policy, 213, 115196.
Kovesdi, F. and Alkire, S. (2026). ‘Measuring multidimensional poverty: A rigorously documented global data gap’, Social Indicators Research, Vol. 182, article No. 2.
Moreno Superlano, E. (2026) ‘Chronotopic mechanisms of sedentary subjectification: Territorializing Venezuela’s communes’, Migration Studies, 14(1).
OPHI (with IsDB) (2026) Nexus between Conflict, Fragility and Poverty, IsDB–OPHI Briefs No. 4, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
OPHI (with IsDB) (2026) Multidimensional Poverty in Yemen: An Analysis of Changes over Time and Gender, IsDB–OPHI Briefs No. 3, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).