Long seen as the “London of Bangladesh” for its foreign earnings and opulent villas, Sylhet has been dealt a sobering blow.

One in every four people in Bangladesh is living in multidimensional poverty, according to a report. The Mmatest ...

The index measures both the share of people in poverty and the degree to which they are deprived. The first edition of the ...

A staggering 28.9 per cent of children in Bangladesh, nearly three out of every ten, are affected by multidimensional ...

India's multidimensional poverty reduction efforts, including the Graduation Approach, have shown significant success in ...

According to the MPI, more than 39 million people in the country are currently living in multidimensional poverty. While ...

A Progress Review 2023', Singh said that between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the poverty rate reduced from 24.85 per cent to 14.96 ...

Poverty goes beyond income. It often arises when health, education and opportunities fall short of meeting people's needs.

The Federal Government is adopting multidimensional index to tackle poverty, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday. He said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has been mobilised as tool ...

Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, and spatiality is an important dimension for defining a multidimensional poverty index (MPI). Acknowledging the fact that spatiality is dependent on scale, ...

Findings The multidimensional poverty index was highest in Makoko and Iwaya. These scores indicate severe poverty, as they are above the threshold of 0.50.

Multidimensional poverty in India, which apart from food covers access to health and education facilities, is estimated to ...