New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 20 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) declined from 0.0037 in 2022 to 0.0025 in 2024, signalling continued improvement in overall multidimensional ...

According to the MPI, 27 per cent of Ugandans (Approx.12.2 million) are classified as multidimensionally poor, with stark ...

However, these outcomes are often collected in separate surveys, leaving the joint distribution partially unobserved. To ...

The Federal Government is adopting multidimensional index to tackle poverty, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday. He said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has been mobilised as tool for ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...

Poverty is often pictured in very obvious ways. We think of empty wallets, unsafe housing, or people who cannot afford basic ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is being considered to provide a more comprehensive measure of poverty that goes beyond income levels, says Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir. The Economy ...

The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) have launched a series of reports assessing multidimensional poverty in IsDB Member ...

Prof. Comfort Moradeke Amire, a professor of Economics at the Crawford University, has underscored the need to deploy a multifaceted approach to reduce poverty in the country. She urged policymakers ...

Multidimensional poverty in India has seen a significant decline over the past nine years—from 29.17 per cent in 2013-14 to 11.28 per cent in 2022-23—indicating that nearly 24.82 crore people have ...

Malaysia’s MPI fell to 0.0025 in 2024, down from 0.0037 in 2022, showing reduced non-monetary poverty. Urban poverty remained very low, while rural areas improved but still recorded higher deprivation ...