Associate Professor Shatakshee Dhongde's paper her latest in a series of work on the topic and the first to break down multidimensional poverty on a state-by-state level over more than a decade.

Are the poorest 40 percent benefiting from growth? Growth of the bottom 40 percent in each country is the key predictor of the World Bank’s second goal of boosting shared prosperity. On that score, it ...

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

NEARLY eight in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—or 887 million of the 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air ...

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 ...

Derek Yu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...

Environmental pollution and poverty are often discussed as separate crises, but they are deeply intertwined, forming a ...

ABOUT 3.9% of the Philippine population can be classified as suffering from “multidimensional” poverty, meaning poor in terms of living standards, education, and health, the United Nations Development ...

This paper examines Pakistan’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Preparation Status Report. The formulation of the Interim PRSP (I-PRSP) was the first step in the direction of preparing a ...