Dr. Alhassan Iddrisu Multidimensional poverty levels declined in 250 out of 261 districts of the country between 2021 and ...

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

By Jibril Abdul MumuniAccra, May 18, GNA – The latest district-level multidimensional poverty rankings have revealed that the North East Region continues to host the most deprived districts in ...

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 ...

Six of Ghana’s poorest districts are all located in the North East Region, according to the latest district-level poverty ...

The latest Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) rankings released by the Ghana Statistical Service have identified several districts in the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions as the best-performing ...

Vietnam has made significant achievements over the past nearly 40 years of Doi Moi (Reform), with hunger eradication and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...