SOPHIA Oxford and KOMUNIKA LATAM sign alliance
SOPHIA Oxford and KOMUNIKA LATAM sign alliance to support companies to promote the well-being of their employees
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SOPHIA Oxford launches the Wise Responder Action Kit
SOPHIA Oxford launches the Wise Responder Action Kit for “Already Committed” companies in Latin America and the Caribbean to tackle social challenges, in COVID impacted world, faced by their employees and their families.
Companies are already embracing Environmental, Social and Governance – ESG — goals and measurement. What these companies need are tangible tools that integrate with their systems. They want better data to make better decisions for better investments for better impact.
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What is MULTIDIMENSIONAL
POVERTY?
When you hear the word poverty, ¿what concepts or meanings come your mind? ¿How would you define if a person is poor or not? Questions like these are the ones that led to redesign a new concept of poverty in the world, a concept that is far from referring only to a monetary shortage, and that seeks to make obsolete the notion conceived so far.
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Keeping Poverty Reduction Front and Center
The latest update to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index shows that many countries have made significant progress in improving the lives of the poor over the past decade. Rather than allow these gains to be reversed by the COVID-19 pandemic, governments must seize this moment to redouble their efforts. By Juan Manuel Santos , Sabina Alkire.
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The MPI has come of age, should shape the new dawn
While Covid-19 is sometimes referred to as a great leveller, the MPI may open our eyes to the reality that many are buried below the scale, like blacks in the US.
We will see similar patterns in South Africa when the effects of our racial past and our tinkering with development rear their heads.
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Oxford launches poverty-fighting vehicle
Oxford University has been testing out a new poverty-fighting vehicle in Costa Rica that helps companies to identify and tackle hidden poverty in their workforce. Co-founder John Hammock spoke to the FT’s Andrew Jack about the scope and aims of the initiative.
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Poverty research wins Oxford prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize
The University of Oxford is among 22 UK educational institutions announced as winners of Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for research carried out by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
Her Majesty The Queen approved the award of Queen’s Anniversary Prizes in the thirteenth round of the scheme.
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Oxford University launches social enterprise to help business fight poverty
Researchers from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) have launched sOPHIa Oxford, the University’s first social enterprise spinout, to bring a multidimensional poverty-fighting method created by OPHI to businesses to help efforts to tackle poverty.
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