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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report 2018

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March 27, 2019

Why in news?

India has reduced its poverty rate from 55% to 28% in 10 years according to a new version of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report 2018.

What is the report on?

  • It was developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
  • MPI is a measure that takes into account the incidence of poverty and the extent of deprivation i.e. “who is poor” and “how they are poor”.
  • MPI is thus the product of two measures -
    1. poverty rate as a percentage of the population
    2. poverty intensity as the average share of deprivations that poor people experience
  • The index is based on a list of 10 deprivations for poor, covering health facilities, education and living standards.
  • If someone is deprived in a third or more of the 10 weighted indicators, the global index identifies them as “MPI poor”.
  • The present report covers 105 countries which are home to 77% of the world’s population or 5.7 billion people.
  • The report dedicates a chapter to India because of its remarkable progress.

What is India's poverty scenario?

  • Nearly 271 million people have moved out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16 in India.
  • India still had 364 million poor in 2015-16, the largest for any country. Nevertheless, it is down from 635 million in 2005-06.
  • A total of 113 million people, or 8.6% of India’s people, live in 'severe poverty'.
  • The traditional disadvantaged sub-groups such as rural dwellers, lower castes and tribes, Muslims and young children are still the poorest.
  • Nevertheless, the rate of poverty reduction among children, the poorest states, Scheduled Tribes, and Muslims was the fastest.
  • Children - Of the 364 million people who were MPI poor in 2015-16, 156 million (34.6%) were children.
  • This is a 47% decrease from the 292 million poor children in India in 2005-06.
  • Multidimensional poverty among children under 10 years of age has fallen the fastest.
  • So the latest figures represent that 136 million fewer children are growing up in multidimensional poverty than in 2005-06.
  • However, two in five children under 10 years of age are poor (41%), but less than one quarter of people aged 18 to 60 (24%) are poor.
  • STs - Although Muslims and STs reduced poverty the most over the 10 years, these two groups still had the highest rates of poverty.
  • While 80% of ST members had been poor in 2005-06, 50% of them were still poor in 2015-16.
  • On the other hand, only 15% of the higher castes are poor.
  • Muslims - While 60% of Muslims had been poor in 2005-06, 31% of them were still poor in 2015-16.
  • Every third Muslim is multidimensionally poor, compared to every sixth Christian.

                                                                 

  • States - The four poorest states are Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.
  • These are still home to 196 million MPI poor people, which is over half of all the MPI poor people in India.
  • Bihar was the poorest state in 2015-16, with more than half its population in poverty.
  • Across the 640 districts in India, the poorest district is Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh, where 76.5% of people are MPI poor.
  • Jharkhand had the greatest improvement, followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, and Nagaland.
  • At the other end, Kerala, one of the least poor regions in 2006, reduced its MPI by around 92%.

How is it globally?

  • Worldwide, 1.3 billion (23%) people live in multidimensional poverty in the 105 developing countries that the report covered.
  • This represents 23%, or nearly a quarter, of the population of these countries.
  • Regions - Multidimensional poverty was found in all developing regions of the world.
  • However, it was seen to be particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
  • These two regions account together for 83% (more than 1.1 billion) of all multi-dimensionally poor people in the world.
  • Additionally, two-thirds of all multi-dimensionally poor people live in middle-income countries.
  • Nearly 889 million people in these countries experience deprivations in nutrition, schooling, and sanitation, just like those in low-income countries.
  • Children - Children account for almost half (49.9%) of the world’s poor.
  • Worldwide, over 665 million children live in multidimensional poverty.
  • In 35 countries, at least half of all children are MPI poor.
  • In South Sudan and Niger, some 93% of all children are MPI poor.

 

Source: Indian Express

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