Since 1997, the annual UNDP Report tries to measure poverty in the Third World using a human poverty index that considers other criteria than monetary income. These are : – services procured by the ...

For its annual flagship Human Development Report in 2010, the UNDP replaced its human poverty index with an MPI constructed at OPHI by Alkire and Maria Emma Santos, now an assistant economics ...

The index, compiled jointly with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), used indicators such as a lack of adequate housing, sanitation, electricity, cooking fuel, nutrition ...

According to the index, 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half in five ... Program office that produces its annual Human Development Report, said: “By overlaying conflict ...

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is a comprehensive tool developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the UNDP's Human Development Report Office.