Press Releases

• New data challenges traditional notions of ‘rich’ and ‘poor’
  11 July 2019

• OPHI and Oxford University launch sOPHIa Oxford to help business fight poverty
  26 March 2019

• New data show 48% of people in Angola are poor
  22 January 2018

• Bhutan cuts poverty by roughly half in five years
  29 December 2017

• Progress on Poverty: Presidents, Ministers, and International Organizations Advocate Multidimensional Indices for Tracking the SDGs
  12 September 2017

• Half the world’s poor are children
  1 June 2017

• Beyond $1.90 a day: why the World Bank is rethinking who is poor
  1 November 2016

• UN Summit: Latin American countries take the lead in pressing for a new global poverty measure
  23 September 2015

• Latest figures on where 1.6 billion poor people live: New report on global poverty highlights extent of the challenges facing UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals
  22 June 2015

• Latin America leads the fight against multidimensional poverty
  2 June 2015

• The world’s poorest people don’t always live where you’d expect
  7 January 2015

• Global Poverty Eradication: governments of Emerging Countries to make the case at the UN for a new poverty measure “to revolutionize development interventions.”
  22 September 2014

• One-half of all poor people are ‘destitute’, suggests new research
• La moitié de tous les pauvres sont «démunis», selon une nouvelle étude
  13 June 2014

• Over 20 governments pressure UN to change how it measures poverty
  20 September 2013

• Colombia and Mexico guide new network for governments to tackle global poverty
  31 May 2013

• Poverty index identifies ‘star’ developing countries in Africa and Asia
  18 March 2013

• Nepal and Bangladesh are star performers in cutting multidimensional poverty
  18 March 2013

• Groundbreaking index launched to empower women and fight hunger
  27 February 2012

• Study says ‘Most poor people don’t live in the poorest countries’
  7 December 2011

• Colombia adopts world’s first poverty reduction plan to use new Oxford University measure
  22 August 2011

• Oxford University and UNDP join forces to launch a better way to measure global poverty
  14 July 2010

• A new approach to poverty measurement in Latin America
  12 May 2010

• Nobel Economist to open new research centre at Oxford University
  30 May 2007