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DIMENSIONS
Magazine on Multidimensional Poverty
Articles
A Day in the Life: Living in multidimensional poverty in Nepal, Tamang’s story
Tamang*, a 56-year-old landless woman from an indigenous minority caste, lives near a remote jungle in Nepal with her husband, who has severe disabilities and a low body mass index (less than 18.5), and two granddaughters, who are attending school, the older of whom just started 7th grade.
Sierra Leone Launches a National MPI
In May 2019, Sierra Leone became one of the first countries in Africa to publish a national Multi- dimensional Poverty Index (MPI-SL). The MPI-SL comprises five dimensions and 14 indicators and identifies a person as being multidimensionally poor if they experience more than 40% of the deprivations included in the measure.
Multidimensional Poverty in the United States
This year the U.S. Census Bureau published a report with an innovative multidimensional poverty measurement exercise called the Multidimensional Deprivation Index (MDI), which is in- tended to complement, without replacing, the official income-based poverty measures.
Child Poverty: How to Measure and For What Policy Purpose?
There is now a consensus that addressing child poverty is important to breaking long-term social and economic drivers of poverty, and to reflecting the human rights agenda. Indeed, the commitment is enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This consensus is recent and not universal. Only three years ago I was discussing the issue with governmental officials who said, ‘children can’t be poor because they don’t work’. So, it is important not to be complacent and to work on improving evidential and advocacy-based approaches, as discussed later in this Dimensions issue.
Child and Adolescent Poverty and Social Rights in Mexico: A Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Approach
One of the reasons it is so important to eradicate child and adolescent poverty is because of its consequences for a person’s present and future development. Poverty during childhood is more likely to be permanent, since its effects on health and physical and cognitive development are usually irreversible. The economic and social dependency of girls, boys and adolescents generates complex dynamics of vulnerability that require appropriate public policy strategies.