Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013

This global MPI report 2013 (8 page version) was originally published as OPHI Briefing No. 13.

The Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI is an international poverty measure developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship Human Development Report in 2010. The innovative index reflects the multiple deprivations that a poor person faces with respect to education, health and living standards. This briefing summarises a number of analyses of the MPI figures published in the HDR 2013, and shows how the MPI can be used, and summarises a number of analyses of the MPI figures published in the HDR 2013.

Citation: Alkire, S., Roche, J.M. and Seth, S. (2013). 'Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013', Global MPI Report No. 4 (OPHI Briefing 13), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.