Date: 29 August - 9 September 2008.

Location: New Delhi, India.

Organiser: Institute for Human Development, Delhi.

The purpose of this intensive summer school is to provide a thorough conceptual and technical introduction to current literature and techniques of measuring and comparing capabilities, drawing on various techniques of multidimensional measurement and of statistical analysis.

The summer school is primarily addressed to Master & PhD students, post-docs and researchers who are working on multidimensional poverty and capability measurement or analysis. Applicants who are already at the stage of pursuing a research project are particularly welcome. Other candidates having a demonstrated research interest in empirical analysis in these topics can be considered on the basis of their experience and space availability.Participants are required to have a background in quantitative methods (econometrics, statistics) and should be familiar with the capability approach and social science research methods.

Deadline for application: 1 April 2008.

Email: hdcp@iuss.unipv.it

Website: http://www.ophi.org.uk/pubs/HDCA%20Summer%20School%20on%20Capabili ty%20and%20Multidimensional%20Poverty.pdf