The Dominican Republic MPI was launched on the 27th of June 2017 in an official ceremony led by the Vice President of the country, Margarita Cedeño Fernández. 

• Citation: Sistema Único de Beneficiario (2017). IPM-RD Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional de la República Dominicana.

Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in a third of the 24 weighted indicators.  

The annual global MPI produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative in partnership with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme is an internationally comparable index of acute multidimensional poverty. OPHI publishes Country Briefings summarising poverty statistics of the global MPI for each country.     

Visit the most recent Global MPI Country Briefing for Dominican Republic based on MICS year 2019.

Official institution responsible for statistics  

• Sistema Único de Beneficiarios (Siuben) 

Additional materials  

• Vicepresidencia de la República Dominicana et al (2020). COVID-19 y la Pobreza Multidimensional en Republica Dominicana: Simulación del Efecto de la Pandemia en la Pobreza Multidimensional en República Dominicana 
• (Video) Conversation with Vice President of Dominican Republic Margarita Cedeño de Fernandez  celebrating OPHI's impact
• (Video) Conversation with Vice President of Dominican Republic Margarita Cedeño de Fernandez about working with the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network.
• (Video) Conversation with Vice President of Dominican Republic Margarita Cedeño de Fernandez about the implementation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index in the Dominican Republic.

Events

• 24 September 2024 | Intervention by Pável Ernesto Isa Contreras, Minister of Economics, Planning and Development, at UNGA 79

Dimensions articles

• COVID-19 impact on multidimensional poverty in Dominican Republic | MPPN

VNRs   

• June 2018 | Informe Nacional Voluntario 2018 Compromisos, Avances y Desafíos Hacia el Desarrollo Sostenible