Global MPI 2017 launch

OPHI has launched the 2017 Global MPI, which added estimations for Algeria and El Salvador, and updated MPI estimations for 23 countries including China, India, Mexico and South Africa at a special anniversary seminar at Oxford University on 1 June. OPHI also launched its first-ever child poverty disaggregations for every country, finding that half of the multidimensionally poor people across 103 countries were children.