2019 – Posted in: Daily News

GLOBAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX 2019 REPORT

For: Preliminary & Mains

Topics covered: Highlights of the report, Multidimensional Poverty Index

India has registered the fastest absolute reduction in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) value among ten countries.

India lifted 271 million out of poverty, particularly in assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition, between 2005-06 and 2015-16.

Among the four Indian states with the most acute MPI — Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh — Jharkhand has made the most progress.
Jharkhand is among the poorest regions in the world improving the fastest.
India was among the three countries where poverty reduction in rural areas outpaced that in urban areas, is an indicator of pro-poor development.
Disadvantaged subgroups such as those living in rural India, Muslims, the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, and young children are still the poorest in India.

Across the 101 countries, 23.1 percent of the people are multidimensionally poor.
Fifty percent of multidimensionally poor people are children, and a third are children under age 10 with over 85 percent of poor children living in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The ten developing nations for which the comparison is made include countries across income categories:

The MPI captures both the incidence and intensity of poverty.
The global MPI tracks 101 countries on deprivations across ten indicators in health, education, and standard of living.
It looks beyond income poverty and tracks poverty in terms of the deprivation faced by people in their daily lives.
It is developed in 2010 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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