26 February 2021 – The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) hosted an online side event at the 52nd United Nations Statistical Commission entitled ‘Multidimensional Poverty Indices: An SDG Indicator, an Official Statistic, and a Policy Tool’ yesterday. The event brought …
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25 January 2021 – This paper authored by Indranil Dutta, Ricardo Nogales and Gaston Yalonetzky explores the dangers with endogenous (i.e. data-driven) weights in measuring poverty. Multidimensional Poverty Indices (MPIs) depend on the weights assigned to the different dimensions and …
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19 January 2021 – Back by popular demand, OPHI and the United Nations Development Programme are delighted to launch their second Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) entitled ‘Designing a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)’ next month. The course is free to …
Continue reading Sign up to OPHI UNDP online course: Designing a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) → more COVID-19 poses a severe threat to the health and livelihoods of the world’s poorest. Honduras has launched a pioneering measure to provide support to the most vulnerable using an innovative...[...] more 9 September 2020
– You can now register to join us for this year’s High-Level Side Event ‘Poverty at a Crossroad: Using Leadership and the Multidimensional Poverty Index to...
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[...] more17 July 2020 – The findings of the 2020 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and the challenges for poverty reduction were discussed yesterday by a high-level panel of speakers at the...
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