Emma Samman

Research Fellow, Growth, Poverty and Inequality

e.samman@odi.org.uk

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/emma-samman/a/700/799

Emma Samman joined ODI in October 2011. She has experience in analysis of multidimensional poverty and inequality, the human development approach, survey design and the use of subjective indicators to inform development policy. She has also worked on the socio-economic effects of market development and the effects of space (and segregation) upon wellbeing. She has field experience in Chile, Philippines, Tanzania and Viet Nam.

Prior to joining ODI, Emma has worked for the Human Development Report Office (UNDP), Institute of Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), Trinity College (University of Dublin) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). She has also undertaken consultancy assignments for Agrifood Consulting International, Oxfam International, Twaweza Initiative, UNDP and UNICEF.

Outputs

Eradicating extreme poverty: a noble goal, but how do we measure it?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 12 May 2013

This week we kick off debate over how a post-2015 framework ought to measure poverty – with a blog by Martin Ravallion arguing that a new poverty target should continue to be based on a $1.25 a day poverty line alongside a ‘weakly relative’ poverty line, so that absolute poverty is given primacy but relative poverty is also taken into account.

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Equity, inequality and human development in a post-2015 framework

Publication - Research reports and studies - 27 April 2013

Claire Melamed and Emma Samman

A focus on tackling inequality ought to be central to a human development approach to the post-2015 framework. This paper will argue for an agenda which this focus features explicitly. It calls for an expansive conception of inequality across multiple dimensions of development and on multiple levels—within countries, among people regardless of where they live, and encompassing both present and future generations.

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European Report on Development 2013 - Post-2015: global action for an inclusive and sustainable future

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 April 2013

James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management), Pedro Martins (Overseas Development Institute) and Stephan Klingebiel (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)

The European Report on Development 2013 aims to provide an independent contribution to the post-2015 debate by focusing on how best global collective action can support the efforts of developing countries to achieve development.

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Measuring well-being - different approaches, their implications and an illustration

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 October 2012

Emma Samman

This Development Progress Project Note examines three methods of measuring progress that allow us to compare the performance of different countries. It argues that the methods we employ to measure progress matter, illustrating the diverse results that are generated in a comparison of performance in East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The note summarises how the findings inform the measurement component of ODI’s Development Progress Project.

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4th OECD World Forum: measuring well-being for development and policy making

Event - Conference - 16 - 19 October 2012

Building on the Better Life Initiative, the main objectives of the Forum are to further the discussions on the different aspects that make for a good life today and in the future. As part of ODI's Development Progress project, ODI Director Alison Evans and Research Fellow Emma Samman will attend the conference and will present the aims of the Development Progress project and work to date on measurement of progress over the past two decades.

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