Since 1997, the annual UNDP Report tries to measure poverty in the Third World using a human poverty index that considers other criteria than monetary income. These are : the probability at birth of ...

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

The D-index measures how an opportunity, in this case test scores over a given threshold, would need to be re-allocated across groups such that all groups would be as likely to achieve a test score ...

For its annual flagship Human Development Report in 2010, the UNDP replaced its human poverty index with an MPI constructed at OPHI by Alkire and Maria Emma Santos, now an assistant economics ...

The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) measures how individual circumstances (i.e., characteristics -- such as place of residence, gender, and education of the household head -- that should not determine ...

PANAMA CITY, February 13th, 2025 - A new World Bank report titled " Panama: From Growth to Prosperity " finds that the quality of jobs and human capital is hampering progress in reducing poverty and ...

At the top of the list of such countries in 2002, were Uruguay, Costa Rica, Chile and Cuba. These countries had managed to reduce human poverty to an HPI below 5%.