Nyawala, 52, and her young granddaughter, 9, fled a crisis in Southern Sudan and live in a refugee settlement in Northern Uganda. In the mornings Nyawala takes her granddaughter to play with other children in the settlement and takes a reflective walk.

Cameroon has witnessed substantial economic growth in the new millennium, but what has happened with poverty? A recent OPHI Working Paper has indicated that monetary and multidimensional poverty decreased in Cameroon between 2001 and 2018, albeit slowly and to varying degrees across the different demographic, socio-economic, and spatial groups of the population.

Last October, OPHI and the United Nations Development Programme launched the latest edition of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index, containing data disaggregated by gender, ethnicity, race and caste – key information to leave no one behind. In this edition of Dimensions, Kelly-Ann Fonderson briefly describes the main findings of this report.

The current COVID-19 pandemic, which took hold in early 2020, put policymakers in a vexing situation. First, there is a high degree of uncertainty associated with both the effectiveness and potential side-effects of most policy measures aiming to curtail the spread of the virus, including the virus’ precise epidemiological characteristics. Secondly, much is at stake, including a significant number of premature deaths, extraordinary economic contractions, and the education of several young generations.

Electricity is a crucial proxy for multidimensional poverty, and one of its best predictors. Tackling energy poverty is of pivotal importance in the fight against multidimensional poverty (1).