United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
with St John’s in the Village.
INVITATION TO THE LAUNCH OF THE
2018 MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX
Hosted by Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, With Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate in Economics; The Reverend Dr Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI; Akihiko Nishio, Acting Vice President, World Bank; and others.
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 11 am
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, 10016
or follow live stream at hdr.undp.org or ophi.org.uk
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reaffirmed the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to poverty that go beyond economic measures of deprivation. With the 2018 estimates, the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) answers the call to better measure progress and opens a new window into how poverty – in all its dimensions – is changing. Jointly developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford (USA-base in St John’s in the Village, Manhattan), the 2018 global MPI casts light on who is multi-dimensionally poor, where they live, and how they are deprived. The 2018 MPI:
⦁ Paints a picture of multidimensional poverty across 105 developing countries, covering 93% of the population in lower and middle-income countries.
⦁ Identifies the ways in which people are being left behind by looking into three key dimensions – health education and living standards – through 10 different indicators.
⦁ Allows comparisons across countries.
⦁ Looks into disparities within countries disaggregating by age groups, urban/rural areas, and subnational regions.
The 2018 global MPI provides a valuable tool for more high-impact sectoral and integrated policies that can be tailored to what poverty looks like, instead of a one-solution-fits-all approach. The presentation of the key findings on the 2018 global MPI will be followed by a high-level discussion on multidimensional approaches to sustainable development and poverty eradication.
RSVP via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uZhIk7wvwXFliGYbTynX6Ygu2uwsdvb4ZSiRFQIsDpw/viewform?edit_requested=true
by 18 September (necessary to attend the event)
or follow live stream at hhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uZhIk7wvwXFliGYbTynX6Ygu2uwsdvb4ZSiRFQIsDpw/viewform?edit_requested=truedr.undp.org or ophi.org.uk
The MPI 2018 data will be available starting on September 20 at 10am EST at hdr.undp.org and ophi.org.uk and stjvny.org