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TopicMultidimensional Poverty Index

Topic: Multidimensional Poverty Index

India may have seen steepest dip in multidimensional poverty among 110 nations — a closer look at UNDP data

UNDP index released Tuesday shows 55% of India was living under multidimensional poverty by 2005-06. This halved to 27.7% by 2015-16 and reduced further to 16.4% by 2019-21.

More than 400 million moved out of poverty in India in 15 years, UN report finds

An update to global Multidimensional Poverty Index report 2022 found that deprivation across all indicators had declined in India. Post-pandemic data wasn’t available for report.

Multidimensional Poverty Index by UN shows India’s ‘remarkable’ poverty reduction

Besides India, China lifted 69 million out of poverty between 2010-2014, and Indonesia 8 million between 2012-2017.

UNDP report found 1.2 bn people ‘multidimensionally poor’. Here’s how they calculated it

Data gathered through household surveys for over 6.1 billion people across 111 countries. In India, common deprivations were lack of housing, sanitation, cooking fuel & nutrition.

After World Bank, UNDP says 41.5 cr Indians were lifted from poverty. But it was all before Covid

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 covers 111 developing countries & shows India's progress outranks countries worldwide & also contributed to decline in overall poverty in South Asia.

3 of India’s 4 poorest districts are ‘money order economy’, survival means going away from UP

Youth of Bahraich, Balrampur and Shravasti go wherever they learn there is work. Many prepare for this before they are adults, drop out of school if opportunity arises.

Code red on malnutrition: Why half the kids in 3 poorest UP districts are stunted, many ‘wasted’

Healthcare workers, officials in Bahraich, Balrampur and Shravasti districts say there’s no one reason behind high malnutrition level in one of most backward regions in India.

Can’t learn, can’t work, can’t even cross river: Life in 3 of India’s 4 poorest districts, all in UP

ThePrint travelled across 3 UP districts in top 5 of Niti Aayog’s Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index, which measures deprivation in terms of health, education, living standards.

India’s poverty rate reduced to half over 10-year period, says UN

More than 270 million people in India have shed poverty during the period 2005-15.

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