{"id":13033,"date":"2023-07-12T05:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13033"},"modified":"2025-04-01T23:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:16:32","slug":"global-multidimensional-poverty-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-multidimensional-poverty-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Multidimensional Poverty Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key Findings:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It said that 25 countries, including India, successfully halved their global MPI values within 15 years, showing that rapid progress is attainable.<\/li>\n<li>The report noted that <strong>deprivation in all indicators declined in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The poorest States and groups, including children and people in disadvantaged caste groups, had the fastest absolute progress.<\/li>\n<li>In India those people who <strong>are multidimensionally poor and deprived<\/strong> under the nutrition indicator have <strong>declined.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Children under the age of 18<\/strong> account for half of MPI-poor people (566 million).<\/li>\n<li>The poverty rate among children is 27.7%, while among adults, it is 13.4%.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Countries halved their MPI in periods as short <strong>as four to 12 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about Global Multidimensional Poverty Index<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was developed by the <strong>United Nations Development Programme<\/strong> (UNDP) and the <strong>Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative<\/strong> (OPHI).<\/li>\n<li>It was first <strong>launched in 2010.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It constructs a deprivation profile of each household and person through <strong>10 indicators spanning health, education and standard of living<\/strong> and includes both incidence as well as intensity of poverty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the role of the United Nations Development Programme?<\/h3>\n<p>UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through the sustainable development of nations, in more than 170 countries and territories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/india-registers-remarkable-reduction-in-poverty-with-415-million-people-coming-out-of-it-in-15-years-united-nations\/article67066698.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>415 million Indians came out of multidimensional poverty in 15 years, says UNDP study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index was developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}