MPI is an international measure of acute poverty covering over 100 developing countries. Uses different factors to determine poverty beyond income-based lists by capturing the severe deprivations that each person faces with respect to education, health and living standards.
These characteristic make the MPI useful as an analytical tool to identify the most vulnerable people - the poorest among the poor, revealing poverty patterns within countries and over time, enabling policy makers to target resources and design policies more effectively.
Source: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (2015)
9 years ago
