The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) co-hosted an online side event at the 76th UN General Assembly yesterday for 19 world leaders and policymakers. In the event, organised by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, speakers discussed how to envision a more equitable future using Multidimensional Poverty Indices (MPIs) as policy tools. As Samheng Boros, the Secretary of State for Cambodia put it, ‘we no longer have to make policy blindly’.

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) is delighted to announce that the eighth MPPN Annual Meeting will be held virtually from 4th to 5th of October. 

This report provides the first update to Nepal’s official national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI-NP). While the first national MPI used 2014 data from the Nepal Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (NMICS), the updated MPI-NP in this report uses 2019 data from the same NMICS report. In this report, minor adjustments were made to five indicators in 2021 in line with Nepal’s national policy aspirations and to align with the global MPI and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to allow for ongoing international comparability. The five indicators were nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling, housing, and assets.

16 June 2021 – Last week, Paraguay launched an official national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) to help guide its poverty reduction policies. According to the Paraguayan MPI, in 2020, 24.9% of the population were living in multidimensional poverty.

Namibia launches its official national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) today to further inform and guide its poverty reduction strategies. It joins the growing number of countries in the region complementing monetary poverty analysis with multidimensional poverty measures.