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Angola: The First Country in Africa to Develop a Municipal Multidimensional Poverty Index

By MPPN

Located on the western coast of south-central Africa, the Republic of Angola has a population of approximately 31 million (2020). According to the 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), 51% of its population lives in multidimensional poverty.

‘The M-MPI is an Important Tool for Guiding Public Policy’

By MPPN

Due to the need of the Ministries of Finance and Ministry of Territory Administration and State Reform (MAT in Portuguese) to identify the level of poverty of each municipality and group them into technically sound and useful classifications for the distribution of the public budget (OGE in Portuguese), we contacted the National Institute of Statistics (INE) so that we could also calculate poverty on a municipal level.

‘The Municipal MPI in Angola is a Key Tool for the SDGs at the National and Local Levels’

By MPPN

In Angola, UNDP has established a solid and fruitful partnership with the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which has led to key results such as the first of Angola’s SDG baseline indicators reports and technical trainings for local governments on multidimensional poverty.

Measuring Poverty in the Indigenous Population of Mexico

By MPPN

The measurement of multidimensional poverty in the indigenous population of Mexico stems from two concerns. The first is a general concern about poverty. It has been established that the prevalence of poverty in the indigenous population – extreme poverty in particular – is consistently greater than in the rest of the population, and that it involves much broader factors than income. The end result is an accumulation of disadvantages that work against equal rights. The second is a concern for what defines this population as ‘indigenous’.

Child Multidimensional Poverty in Thailand

By MPPN

This report presents the findings of the child MPI for Thailand, an official, permanent tool to measure multidimensional poverty among children aged 0-17 years. The child MPI was developed by the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Thailand Country Office, with technical support from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the UNICEF Thailand Country Office. The findings are intended to guide policymakers and other key stakeholders in budget allocation and targeting in order to build human capital, reduce inequality, and eliminate poverty in all its dimensions.