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Acute multidimensional poverty: a new index for Developing Countries [1]

In this paper OPHI presents details of new Multidimensional Poverty Index developed for 104 developing countries. This will be featured in the forthcoming UNDP HDR 2010 & replaces the Human Poverty Index used in these reports since 1997.

This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about 78 percent of the world

Publication Date: 
01/07/2010
Sabina Alkire [2], Maria Emma Santos [3]
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative [4]
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Nutrition [5], Drinking Water [6], Infant mortality [7], Health [8], Sanitation [9], Electricity [10], Poverty [11], Education [12], India [13], Developing Countries [14]
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