Gustavo Petro, the first leftist president in the country’s contemporary history, leaves the lowest unemployment rate of the ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

Multidimensional poverty measurement has transformed our understanding of deprivation by moving beyond income-based metrics to capture the intersecting deficiencies in health, education, living ...

The multidimensional poverty rate in Vietnam has fallen to below 1% this year, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social ...

A new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report has painted a grim picture of life in Malawi, revealing that nearly six in every 10 Malawians are trapped in multidimensional poverty -- a ...

Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of ...

The latest Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) findings published by the Ghana Statistical Service have spotlighted a number ...

A total of 24.82 crore individuals in India escaped multidimensional poverty over the last nine years, with the largest decline reported in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, a report released ...

For the first time, Ghana maps multidimensional poverty for all 261 districts. Nantong (51.6%) highest, Ayawaso North (5.5%) ...

Photo: Xinhua The Global Partnership for Poverty Alleviation and Development (GPPAD), initiated by China together with 53 ...

A poverty index is revealing new insights about deprivation in South Africa. Shutterstock There’s more to understanding a country’s poverty levels than merely calculating how much or how little ...