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Measure of deprivation ~ The Kathmandu Post Oped on the Multidimensional Poverty Index, recently launched by OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report, and poverty in Nepal. Read article. Read more

The Times of India India's Minister of state for planning V. Narayanasamy notes the number of multidimensionally poor people in eight Indian States Read more

A new and more exact yardstick ~ Kuensel Newspaper “We now have more data than we ever had before, so were able to do the multi dimensional poverty measure, which looks at every individual person, and the deprivations that batter their life at the same time,” said Dr Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI Read more

Bhutan to adopt more inclusive poverty index ~ Bhutan Observer Article on the Multidimensional Poverty Index recently launched by OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report Read more

Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries Read more

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OPHI Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty 2010 on 11 Sep 2010, more �

2010 Conference of the HDCA: Human Rights and Human Developments on 21 Sep 2010, more �