The Multidimensional Inequality Framework (MIF) is the outcome of a collaboration between academics at CASE (LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion) and SOAS, led by Dr Abigail McKnight, and Oxfam. This project combined academic research with activist insights to develop a robust and pragmatic framework and toolkit that will help academics and practitioners improve their understanding of inequalities, beyond the usual focus on income inequality. In offering a better understanding of inequalities in any given context, and identifying main drivers and “candidate policies” for consideration, the MIF will help with effective campaign programming and policy-making.
The MIF build on the latest academic research and integrated practitioner, activist and policy expertise held within Oxfam to produce a theoretically grounded yet practical approach to measuring and analysing inequalities. The MIF has now been trialled by Oxfam in in Guatemala, working with the Paraíso Desigual campaign and IDIES, and in Spain. There are additional pilots underway in Burkina Faso and Vietnam.
The initial project was funded by Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, with further funding for the MIF website provided by LSE’s Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund.
Project Members
Dr Abigail McKnight
Director, LSE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
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Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro
Lecturer in Latin American Studies, CLAS/POLIS
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Ana María Claver Muñoz
Lead on Strategy, Knowledge and Learning, Oxfam Intermón
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