Multidimensional poverty in Ghana declined from 23.9% in the first quarter of 2025 to 21.9% by the third quarter, according to the latest Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report released by the ...

Ghana has witnessed a significant reduction in multidimensional poverty under the leadership of President John Dramani Mahama ...

• An index that measures the percentage of households in a country deprived along three dimensions –monetary poverty, education, and basic infrastructure services – to capture a more complete picture ...

Ghana’s poverty rate declined from 24.9% to 21.9% in less than one year. More than 360,000 people exited multidimensional poverty in Q3 2025. Rural areas and northern regions remain the most affected.

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, ...

India has made strong progress in reducing poverty, with both income-based and non-monetary indicators showing steady improvement, according to the Economic Survey.

Unmarried cohabiting couples recorded the highest incidence of multidimensional poverty by marital status, the Ghana ...

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 ...

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 for ...

This paper examines multidimensional poverty in Brazil in 2000 and 2010, based on the microdata of the Demographic Censuses. Our analysis is disaggregated into five classes of municipalities according ...

Nigeria’s poverty debate has drifted into a dangerous simplification. A single figure appears, detached from its assumptions, ...