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MPPN closes successfully in Seychelles

Seychelles launches pilot MPI with President Danny Faure in attendance

Sierra Leone becomes the next African country to launch its own national MPI

Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia, in conversation

Visiting Fellow discusses parental absence in rural China

New issue of Dimensions is out

Daily Outlook Afghanistan - Half of Afghans Suffer from Multidimensional Poverty: Gov’t

Afghan Voice Agency - More than half of Afghans are multidimensionally poor: report

Afghanistan Times - Over half of Afghans live in 'comprehensive' poverty

Afghanistan launches its National Multidimensional Poverty Index (A-MPI)

TOLO News - Over 18M Afghans Suffer From Multidimensional Poverty: Study

Oxford University launches social enterprise to help business fight poverty

Oxford University and OPHI Launch sOPHIa Oxford to Help Businesses Fight Poverty

OPHI and MPPN host Side Event at UN Statistical Commission (UNSC 50)

OPHI Summer School 2019, Dates Announced for Mexico City

Taller Regional de Medición de Pobreza Multidimensional (en español): Panamá, 25-29 marzo 2019

Two Distinguished Lectures on Bhutan: The Land of the Thunder Dragon and Gross National Happiness

Juan Manuel Santos launches Visiting Professorship with public lecture

6th Annual Meeting of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) kicks off in Johannesburg, South Africa

6th Annual Meeting of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) ends successfully Johannesburg, South Africa

Church Times: Index shows ‘staggering’ child poverty

High-Level Side Event: Using the MPI to guide innovative policies to eradicate poverty in all its dimensions (UNGA 73)

Video published of MPPN Side Event at UNGA 73

The Global MPI 2018 shows that India has made remarkable progress

2018 global MPI launched 20 September, revealing key poverty trends related to SDG1

La mitad de los pobres del mundo son niños y niñas

Side Event at UNGA to consider how the MPI can be used to guide polices to eradicate poverty

La moitié des pauvres dans le monde sont des enfants

Half of world’s poor are children

Global MPI 2018 results to be launched on 20 September in New York

OPHI Summer School 2018 closes in Oxford

A Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty Took Place in Thailand

Dimensions’ Special Issue on OPHI 10th Anniversary

A New Project-Friendly Index Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture

OPHI Highly Commended in ‘Excellence in Impact’ Awards

Open consultation for the revised Global MPI

Indian state of Andhra Pradesh releases its first Multidimensional Poverty Index Report

Side event at UN statistical commission shows how MPI can break silos of poverty

HDRO and OPHI unify global multidimensional poverty measures to better monitor progress on SDGs

New numbers show 48% of people in Angola are poor

New data show 48% of people in Angola are poor

Bhutan cuts poverty by roughly half in five years

Bhutan cuts poverty by roughly half in five years

Nepal's Poverty Halved in Less Than a Decade, New Official Index Reveals

How to Fight Child Poverty Multidimensionally

Just Released: Jean Drèze’s New Book Sense and Solidarity

Sabina Alkire gives the UNU-WIDER Annual Lecture in Helsinki

5th MPPN Annual Meeting in Beijing, China

First Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report Launched

UNGA High-Level Side Event: Using the Multidimensional Poverty Index to Track Progress in the SDGs