A MULTIDIMENSIONAL Poverty Index (MPI) is being considered to provide a more comprehensive measure of poverty that goes beyond income levels, says Economy Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir (pic).
Malaysia’s national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) declined from 0.0037 in 2022 to 0.0025 in 2024, signalling continued improvement in ...
When it was first developed in 1963, the poverty threshold was set at the cost of a minimal diet defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Then, a family of ...
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, ...
Flies cover a malnourished child's face at a camp for internally displaced people outside Baradere, Somalia, March 13, 2022. In a Sept. 29 message to Qu Dongyu, general director of the U.N. Food and ...
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 complementary measure to ...
Poverty and inequality continue to plague Silicon Valley, and are seen most acutely in housing, food insecurity and education, according to findings released Tuesday by San Jose State University ...
When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, the nation didn’t have any method of counting the poor, or even a firm notion of how poverty should be defined. His ...
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