{"id":138625,"date":"2019-07-29T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=138625"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:52:48","slug":"the-2019-global-multidimensional-poverty-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/07\/the-2019-global-multidimensional-poverty-index\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgrammeUNDP-logo.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgrammeUNDP-logo-300x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgrammeUNDP-logo-300x148.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgrammeUNDP-logo-768x380.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>11 July 2019<\/em> &#8211; The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication &#8220;<em>Illuminating Inequalities<\/em>&#8221; released today shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Jointly developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ophi.org.uk\/global-mpi-2019\/\" >the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)<\/a> at the University of Oxford, the 2019 global MPI offers data for 101 countries, covering 76 percent of the global population.<\/p>\n<p>The MPI provides a comprehensive and in-depth picture of global poverty \u2013 in all its dimensions \u2013 and monitors progress towards <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdg1\" >Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1<\/a> \u2013 to end poverty in all its forms. It also provides policymakers with the data to respond to the call of Target 1.2, which is to \u2018reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definition&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The publication \u201cIlluminating Inequalities\u201d previews ongoing research into trends over time for a group of countries including Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Peru. SDG target 10.1 calls for tracking the progress of the bottom 40 percent of the population compared with that of the total population \u2013 the publication includes case studies and a detailed analysis of the growth of those furthest behind \u2013 the \u2018bottom 40%\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key findings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Across 101 countries, 1.3 billion people\u201423.1 percent\u2014are multidimensionally poor.<\/li>\n<li>Two-thirds of multidimensionally poor people live in middle-income countries.<\/li>\n<li>There is massive variation in multidimensional poverty within countries. For example, Uganda\u2019s national multidimensional poverty rate (55.1 percent) is similar to the Sub-Saharan Africa average (57.5 percent), but the incidence of multidimensional poverty in Uganda\u2019s provinces ranges from 6.0 percent to 96.3 percent, a range similar to that of national multidimensional poverty rates in Sub-Saharan Africa (6.3\u201391.9 percent).<\/li>\n<li>Half of the 1.3 billion multidimensionally poor people are children under age 18. A third are children under age 10.<\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s spotlight on child poverty in South Asia reveals considerable diversity. While 10.7 percent of South Asian girls are out of school and live in a multidimensionally poor household, that average hides variation: in Afghanistan 44.0 percent do.<\/li>\n<li>In South Asia 22.7 percent of children under age 5 experience intrahousehold inequality in deprivation in nutrition (where at least one child in the household is malnourished and at least one child in the household is not). In Pakistan over a third of children under age 5 experience such intrahousehold inequality.<\/li>\n<li>Of 10 selected countries for which changes over time were analysed, India and Cambodia reduced their MPI values the fastest\u2014and they did not leave the poorest groups behind.<\/li>\n<li>There is wide variation across countries in inequality among multidimensionally poor people\u2014that is, in the intensity of poverty experienced by each poor person. For example, Egypt and Paraguay have similar MPI values, but inequality among multidimensionally poor people is considerably higher in Paraguay.<\/li>\n<li>There is little or no association between economic inequality (measured using the Gini coefficient) and the MPI value.<\/li>\n<li>In the 10 selected countries for which changes over time were analysed, deprivations declined faster among the poorest 40 percent of the population than among the total population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4WRVZ2E8Ayk<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hdr.undp.org\/en\/2019-MPI\" >TO READ THE FULL REPORT Go to Original \u2013 hdr.undp.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 July 2019 &#8211; The 2019 Global MPI data and publication &#8220;Illuminating Inequalities&#8221; released today shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves. Jointly developed by the UNDP and the University of Oxford, it offers data for 101 countries, covering 76 percent of the global population. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":138626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-138625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}