{"id":9480,"date":"2022-10-18T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T06:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9480"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:05:50","slug":"global-multidimensional-poverty-index-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About 41.5 crore people exited poverty in India during the 15-year period between 2005-06 and 2019-21, out of which two-third exited in the first 10 years, and one-third in the next five years.<\/li>\n<li>The incidence of poverty fell from 55.1% in 2005-06 to 16.4% in 2019-21 in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The deprivations in all 10 MPI indicators saw significant reductions as a result of which the MPI value and incidence of poverty more than halved.<\/li>\n<li>Improvement in MPI for India has significantly contributed to the decline in poverty in South Asia.<\/li>\n<li>It is for the first time that it is not the region with the highest number of poor people, at 38.5 crore, compared with 57.9 crore in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The report doesn\u2019t fully assess the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in India as 71% of the data from the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-2021) relied upon for MPI were collected before the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>Bihar is the poorest State in 2015-2016, saw the fastest reduction in MPI value in absolute terms. The incidence of poverty there fell from 77.4% in 2005-2006 to to 34.7% in 2019-2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Ending Poverty a Challenge:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>India has by far the largest number of poor people worldwide at 22.8 crore, followed by Nigeria at 9.6 crore.<\/li>\n<li>Two-third of these people live in a household in which at least one person is deprived in nutrition.<\/li>\n<li>There were also 9.7 crore poor children in India in 2019-2021\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>About 4.2% of the population in the country still live in severe poverty.<\/li>\n<li>Rural areas account for nearly 90% of poor people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Global Multidimensional Poverty Index:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The report produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).<\/li>\n<li>It was first launched in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The global MPI constructs a deprivation profile of each household and person through 10 indicators spanning health, education and standard of living and includes both incidence as well as intensity of poverty.<\/li>\n<li>All indicators are equally weighted within each dimension.<\/li>\n<li>The global MPI identifies people as multi-dimensionally poor if their deprivation score is 1\/3 or higher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GH6ADI5FE.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incidence of poverty fell from 55.1% in 2005-06 to 16.4% in 2019-21 in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9480","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\/9480","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=9480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}