Press Releases
Poverty index reveals stark inequalities among ethnic groups
07 October 2021
Pilot project in Honduras strengthens transparency in fight against COVID-19 vulnerability
15 October 2020
Progress against the multiple dimensions of poverty was made before the pandemic – but now it is at risk
16 July 2020
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
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
One-half of all poor people are ‘destitute’, suggests new research”
13 June 2014
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