• An index that measures the percentage of households in a country deprived along three dimensions –monetary poverty, education, and basic infrastructure services – to capture a more complete picture ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica—After several years in gestation, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) recently launched Jamaica’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which is intended to provide a ...
Poor governance provides enabling conditions for multidimensional poverty, which is beyond monetary poverty. This is the essential takeaway from the national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) ...
This paper empirically analyses whether there is any significant statistical relationship between fiscal decentralisation and multidimensional poverty in Kenya using FE ...
Is India’s poverty rate 5% or 24%? A debate over poverty lines, data transparency, and Parliament’s questions reveals how millions may be missing from policy.