Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013

The Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI is an international poverty measure developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship Human Development Report in 2010. The innovative index reflects the multiple deprivations that a poor person faces with respect to education, health and living standards. This briefing summarises a number of analyses of the MPI figures published in the HDR 2013, and shows how the MPI can be used, and summarises a number of analyses of the MPI figures published in the HDR 2013. 

Citation: Alkire, S., Roche, J.M. and Seth, S. (2013). 'Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013', OPHI Policy Briefing 13 (Global MPI Report 4), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

This reports counts also as Global MPI report No. 4.