NEW DELHI, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have emerged as the poorest states in India, Indian government's top policy think tank National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog (commission) said in its latest report on Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Acc...
Firstly, multidimensional poverty of urban poor household in Guwahati city is related to their: (a) migration status; (b) work status; (c) social Status; and (d) literacy status. Secondly, multidimensional poverty of urban poor households in Guwahati city is not related to their income status...
multiply deprived from those who are not Need for a complementary measure that can capture direct deprivations 4 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) The method is an adaptation of Alkire and Foster (2011) which can deal with the binary or categorical data and was introduced by Alkire and ...
9Multidimensional Poverty in India:District Level EstimatesAasha Kapur Mehta1(assisted by Deepa Chatterjee and Nikhila Menon)1. ..
There is a more comprehensive way to measure poverty, through the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). It is a joint venture of UK-based Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Its 2017 report estimated India’s poverty at 41%...
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) applies the direct method of measuring poverty using the Alkire and Foster (AF) approach. The study aims at analyzing the comparative study and trends of the multi-dimensional poverty among the north eastern states of India. The MPI value was continuing to...
The wealth index is then used to examine the distribution of deprivation and poverty by wealth percentiles. The study distinguishes between multidimensional deprivation and multidimensional poverty and compares the living standards in these countries based on both measures. This paper also presents ...
Water Poverty Index (WPI) is a multidimensional index used internationally at different scales and levels for performance analysis of the water sector. The methodology used to calculate WPI is based on subjective weight method i.e. equally-weighted average of its five components, namely resources, ...
Last year, the NITI Aayog had released its Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which said that about one in every four Indians (25 per cent) was living in poverty. Unlike estimates mentioned earlier that focused largely on consumption expenditure, the MPI takes into account factors such as ...
In a major development, India summoned a senior US diplomat over recent US State Department remarks on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. According to