For the first time, Ghana maps multidimensional poverty for all 261 districts. Nantong (51.6%) highest, Ayawaso North (5.5%) ...

Multidimensional poverty measurement has transformed our understanding of deprivation by moving beyond income-based metrics to capture the intersecting deficiencies in health, education, living ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

The latest Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) findings published by the Ghana Statistical Service have spotlighted a number ...

Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of ...

The multidimensional poverty rate in Vietnam has fallen to below 1% this year, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) reported at its year-end review conference held in Hanoi on ...

Rajasthan is facing a worsening groundwater and public health crisis, with fluoride contamination, falling water tables and ...

This seminar, as part of the Poverty & Equity Global Practice’s series on identifying a research agenda for welfare measurement led by the Global Solutions Group on Data For Policy, will focus on a ...

A poverty index is revealing new insights about deprivation in South Africa. Shutterstock There’s more to understanding a country’s poverty levels than merely calculating how much or how little ...

Colombia’s multidimensional poverty rate dropped 1.6 point to 9.9% last year, according to statistics agency DANE. Last year’s decline in poverty continued a seven-year downward trend that was briefly ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...