Charting pathways out of poverty with the global Multidimensional Poverty Index

The update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in 2020, contains unprecedented and riveting findings – on how poverty reduced in a study covering 5 billion people, on how COVID-19 might affect projected levels of multidimensional poverty, and on how MPI interacts with SDG indicators like vaccination, work, and environment. 

Speakers include: 

• Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
• Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
• HE M.A. Mannan, Minister of Planning, Bangladesh
• Isabel Saint Malo, Former Vice President, Panama
• Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
• Theadora Swift Koller, Senior Technical Advisor, Equity, World Health Organization
• Dean Joliffe, Lead Economist, Development Data Group, World Bank