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High-Level Side Event: Using the MPI to guide innovative policies to eradicate poverty in all its dimensions

This side event featured how countries are using multidimensional poverty metrics to fight the interlinked features of poverty in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere. High-level participants from 19 countries and international institutions shared their experiences developing and utilizing multidimensional poverty metrics to measure poverty and design policies to eradicate poverty and work towards achieving the SDGs. more

The Global MPI 2018 shows that India has made remarkable progress

India has reduced its poverty rate drastically from 55% to 28% in ten years. 271 million people moved out of poverty between 2005/6 and 2015/16. While progress has been remarkable, the country still has the largest number of people living … Continue reading The Global MPI 2018 shows that India has made remarkable progress → more

Video! MPPN Side Event at UNGA 73

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) High-Level Side Event at the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73) video is available here. more

2018 global MPI launched 20 September, revealing key poverty trends related to SDG1

On 20 September at UN Headquarters in New York, the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (global MPI) results were launched. The [...] more

Side Event at UNGA to consider how the MPI can be used to guide polices to eradicate poverty

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) will organise in a High-Level Side Event at the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73) on 25 September 2018, 11am-1pm, at...
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Half of world’s poor are children

The 2018 Multidimensional Poverty Index provides the most comprehensive view of the many ways in which 1.3 billion people worldwide experience poverty in their daily life. In...
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