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, ...

Poverty estimates have long been a political battleground in India. The recent Multidimensional Poverty Index findings have been critiqued not just for methodological flaws but also for potentially ...

Citing the 'National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A Progress Review 2023', Singh said that between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the poverty rate reduced from 24.85 per cent to 14.96 per cent, which means ...

ABOUT 3.9% of the Philippine population can be classified as suffering from “multidimensional” poverty, meaning poor in terms of living standards, education, and health, the United Nations Development ...

Long seen as the "London of Bangladesh" for its foreign earnings and opulent villas, Sylhet has been dealt a sobering blow. The country's first Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has revealed that ...

India’s extreme poverty rate fell dramatically to 5.3 per cent, down from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12, despite the World Bank raising its global poverty line to $3 per day. Government data last year ...

A STUDY by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) found that 80 percent of people experiencing multidimensional poverty are also ...

Poverty is a global issue affecting about one-tenth of the people worldwide. It is a relevant concern not only in the developing countries but also to some extent in the developed world. As per 2025 ...