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, ...

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL Poverty Index (MPI) is being considered to provide a more comprehensive measure of poverty that goes beyond income levels, says Economy Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir (pic).

Malaysia’s national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) declined from 0.0037 in 2022 to 0.0025 in 2024, signalling continued improvement in ...

After several years in gestation, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) recently launched Jamaica’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which is intended to provide a complementary measure to ...

Flies cover a malnourished child's face at a camp for internally displaced people outside Baradere, Somalia, March 13, 2022. In a Sept. 29 message to Qu Dongyu, general director of the U.N. Food and ...

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.

In Nusa Tenggara Timur, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is ...

When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, the nation didn’t have any method of counting the poor, or even a firm notion of how poverty should be defined. His ...