National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) and UNICEF Thailand today released the Child Multidimensional Poverty Index (Child MPI), a newly developed methodology to measure multiple deprivations faced by children beyond monetary poverty in Thailand.

This joint handbook by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, provides practical guidance for policymakers, statisticians, practitioners and others seeking or engaged in developing a national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).

Findings from the 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) sheds light on disparities in how people experience poverty, revealing vast inequalities among countries and among the poor themselves.

The 7th  annual meeting of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) took place in Seychelles 1-3 July with the participation of more than 25 countries and 6 agencies.

On 1 July, 2019, Seychelles officially launched the report of its pilot national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The pilot MPI uses data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey to develop an MPI that is adapted to the Seychellois context. The objective of this MPI was to explore the possible indicators and structure of a measure that can become an official statistic of the government to inform policymaking and monitor progress in eradicating poverty. Based on the findings of the pilot, the measure will be revised, and the final version will be launched later in 2019.