Question: Which of the following UN agency has recently released the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)?
a) UNESCO
b) UNDP
c) UNICEF
d) None of These
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:-
- On 07 October2021; the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- It measures poverty by considering various deprivations experienced by people in their daily lives, including poor health, insufficient education and a low standard of living.
- This present report examines the level and composition of multidimensional poverty across 109 countries.
- This time MPI has covered 5.9 billion people and presented an ethnicity/race/caste disaggregation for 41 countries with available information.
- Disparities in multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups are consistently high across many countries.
- It reported that in nine ethnic groups more than 90 percent of the population is trapped in poverty.
- It also shows how, within a country, multidimensional poverty among different ethnic groups can vary immensely.
- For example, the difference in the percentage of people who are multidimensionally poor across ethnic groups is more than 70 percentage points in Gabon and Nigeria.
- For full detail of the report following links must be seen-
Links:-
http://hdr.undp.org/en/2021-MPI
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-2021-unmasking-disparities-ethnicity-caste-and