The report features an in-depth case study on Afghanistan, where 5.3 million additional people fell into multidimensional poverty between 2015-16 and 2022-3. In the aftermath of the conflict, between ...

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, ...

Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of ...

Multidimensional poverty measurement has transformed our understanding of deprivation by moving beyond income-based metrics to capture the intersecting deficiencies in health, education, living ...

The UN estimated that 18 percent of the world's population lives in acute multidimensional poverty, meaning they are deprived of adequate housing, sanitation, water, food, electricity, basic ...

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 ...

The National Multidimensional Poverty Index (NMPI) will be reviewed to ensure poverty and vulnerability are measured more ...

Multidimensional energy poverty refers to the simultaneous deprivation of households’ access to modern energy services across several domains, including electricity supply, clean cooking fuels, ...

A poverty index is revealing new insights about deprivation in South Africa. Shutterstock There’s more to understanding a country’s poverty levels than merely calculating how much or how little ...

Economic thinking about poverty has evolved towards a better understanding of the many faces of poverty. Using a multidimensional approach to poverty, which complements monetary measures, helps to ...

Associate Professor Shatakshee Dhongde's paper her latest in a series of work on the topic and the first to break down multidimensional poverty on a state-by-state level over more than a decade.

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, drought, or air pollution.