It is jointly published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
- The report overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries and over time with the theme “Poverty Amid Conflict”.
Key finding of the report
- Countries at war have higher deprivations compared with non-conflict settings across all ten indicators of multidimensional poverty.
- Across 112 countries, 1.1 billion people (~18%) live in acute multidimensional poverty.
- With 234 million, India was the country with the largest number of people in extreme poverty.
About MPI
It is a poverty measure that reflects the multiple deprivations that poor people face in the areas of education, health, and living standards (refer image).
- If a person is deprived of 1/3rd or more of (weighted) indicators, they are identified as ‘MPI poor’.
- Genesis: Launched in 2010.
- MPI advances Sustainable Development Goal 1, i.e., ending poverty in all its forms everywhere.
India’s National MPI (NMPI)
- It was introduced in 2021 by NITI Aayog
- Retained the 10 original indicators of the global MPI model and has added two indicators, viz., Maternal Health and Bank Account.