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  • OPHI Update – Global MPI 2023

    • Summary
    • 25 Countries cut MPI by half according to the 2023 global MPI report
    • Findings
    • Urgently needed: more regular poverty data
    • Find out more

    Read OPHI Update – Global MPI 2023

  • OPHI Update – July 2023

    • Global MPI 2023 launch
    • Bhutan’s GNH 2022 and MPI launch in May
    • Sri Lanka launches official national MPI linked to a child MPI
    • New report finds 1 in 4 people affected by poverty in middle-income Arab countries
    • Discussing multidimensional poverty measurement in Uzbekistan
    • OPHI Summer School underway in Bogotá

    Read OPHI Update July 2023

  • OPHI Update - March 2023

    • Halfway to 2030 Agenda: Statisticians share progress on poverty reduction at MPPN Side Event to UNSC 54
    • On Belonging: Finding connection in an age of isolation
    • Apply for OPHI Summer School 2023 in Bogotá in July
    • Nigeria MPI (2022) finds 63% of Nigerians are multidimensionally poor
    • Samoa launches first MPI to accelerate poverty reduction
    • Mauritania launches MPI to complement monetary measures
    • Belize launches MPI to monitor multidimensional poverty
    • OAS Publishes Compendium on Experiences and Lessons Learned in the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty in the Americas
    • In memoriam: Martin Ravallion

    Read OPHI Update – March 2023

  • OPHI Update - Global MPI 2022 (October 2022)

    • 2022 Global MPI examines deprivation bundles – the interlinked nature of the deprivations that strike people at the same time
    • ‘This report is about hope if you take the issues seriously’ says Achim Steiner at the launch of the 2022 global MPI
    • Focusing on interlinkages – the first global study of the combinations of deprivations faced by multidimensionally poor people
    • Historic 15-year poverty reduction in India proves SDG Target 1.2 is possible
    • Where do multidimensionally poor people live around the world and is there progress towards reducing this poverty?
    • A call to action: The data revolution risks leaving poverty data behind

    Read OPHI Update – Global MPI 2022

  • OPHI Update – March 2022

    • Booking open for virtual OPHI Executive Education and the hybrid OPHI Summer School in Indonesia
    • MPPN Side Event at the 53rd UNSC discusses MPIs in practice
    • Architect of Gross National Happiness, Dasho Karma Ura, visits OPHI
    • Citi GPS and SOPHIA Oxford report sees $1.6 trillion opportunity to improve lives of millions
    • Egypt to host the 2022 MPPN Annual Meeting
    • Dimensions 13 out now!
    • World Food Programme and OPHI publish report using the MPI for impact evaluation
    • Sabina Alkire gives evidence at UK Parliamentary Inquiry on Extreme Poverty
    • Publications

    Read OPHI Update – March 2022

  • OPHI Update – January 2022

    • India launches national MPI baseline report to track progress in poverty reduction
    • Malawi launches national MPI to help guide towards Malawi 2063
    • Sri Lanka launches first national MPI and linked-child MPI
    • Register for UNDP and OPHI MOOC: Designing a Multidimensional Poverty Index (2022)
    • Forthcoming events
    • OPHI vacancy
    • Support OPHI
    • Publications

    Read OPHI Update – January 2022

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