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 ...

For him, distilling various measures of poverty into a single index is akin to combining all the dials and gauges in a car into just one instrument. “The human development dimensions of welfare are ...

According to the index, 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half in five countries: India with 234 million impoverished people, Pakistan with 93 million, Ethiopia with 86 million ...

The Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation is an inter-governmental organization of 57 Muslim-majority countries with a mission to promote human rights and advance science and technology development.

It argues that if not addressed, the human capital index (HCI) scores of 0.56 across many countries in the world would mean that “by the age of 18, a child born today will only be 56 percent as ...

The Human Rights Watch Survey and Interview Methodology. ... In March 2022, the government released the first multidimensional poverty index, ...