On September 12, Panama launched the National Child MPI, which is the first official child MPI in Latin-American. The Child MPI has five dimensions (Health, education, water and sanitation, housing and child protection) and 10 indicators (two per dimension). It uses nested weights and a poverty line equal to 30%, meaning that a child is multidimensionally poor if she is deprived in 3 or more indicators.

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) will organise in a High-Level Side Event at the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73) on 25 September 2018 at UN Headquarters in New York.

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has published a new poverty toolbox to support the integration of multidimensional poverty to its work.

Across countries, India is home to the largest number of […]

On March 7, 2018, the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) will host a side event at the 49th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission at the UN Headquarters in New York. The theme of this side event will be: “Disaggregating the Multidimensional Poverty Index to Break Silos of Poverty”. It will explore how the MPI can be used to show the disaggregated information (by rural/urban areas, sub-national regions, age groups, gender etc.) necessary to track progress in the Sustainable Development Goals and encourage policies that leave no one behind.