How are People Poor? Measuring Global Progress toward Zero Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals
Ending acute poverty is a matter of ethical importance and human urgency. It is a collective priority within and across nations and, most of all, for protagonists of poverty reduction. In her contribution to this publication by
UNU Wider, Sabina Alkire sets out how multidimensional measures of poverty can capture the deprivations in income, health, and education faced by poor individuals in developing countries. She explains how the
multidimensional poverty index (MPI) may work in practice and shows that with the availability of microdata for an increasing number of low-income and middle-income countries, trends in the MPI can be tracked over time for many developing countries. Finally, she shows that multidimensional poverty measures offer a powerful tool to policy makers in the Global South to monitor progress in the SDGs.
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publications/Annual-lecture/PDF/AL21-web.pdf
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