This paper examines the substantive pros and cons of the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) recently developed by … Oxford University's Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). It provides comparative cross-country and country …-specific discussion on multidimensional poverty and inequality in the non-income space, with a special reference to the countries in the …

Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …-working economists. The Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures overlapping multiple deprivations that people face …