Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19: A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa (2)

OPHI Briefings

This Briefing presents a 2020 global MPI update to the 2019 global MPI analyses and results presented in: OPHI Briefing 54, ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19: A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI, 2020.
Included are updated data and results for nine coun­tries, which cover over 35% of both the population and poor persons in the region.
The briefing provides evidence on the situation across 479 subnational regions and 40 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. It maps some simultaneous deprivations that people are already facing so that policy actors can adjust their COVID-19 responses based on differing levels of vulnerability. 

Maps on the OPHI website cover each of the 479 regions in greater depth.


Citation: Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional poverty and vulnerability to COVID-19: A rapid overview of disaggregated and interlinked vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

Keywords:
COVID-19, multidimensional poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, interlinked vulnerabilities
Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Country:
Sao Tomé and Príncipe
Gabon
Lesotho
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kingdom of Eswatini
Ghana
Gambia
Zimbabwe
Comoros
Côte d’Ivoire
Togo
Senegal
Rwanda
Namibia
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Malawi
Mauritania
Zambia
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Cameroon
Mali
Angola
Nigeria
Benin
Guinea
United Republic of Tanzania
Uganda
Madagascar
Burkina Faso
Central African Republic
Mozambique
Burundi
Congo
Chad
Niger
Ethiopia

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Authors
Sabina Alkire, Jakob Dirksen, Ricardo Nogales and Christian Oldiges
Series Name
OPHI Briefings
Publication date
2020
Publication Number
B 54a