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.

Through a webinar, the National Statistics Institute (INE) will present, for the first time in the country, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), an official measure that analyzes the deprivation of the population in four dimensions: Access to work and social security; Housing and services; Health and environment, and Education.