Multidimensional Poverty Index, MPI
Updated 2026-08-13
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
The Multidimensional Poverty Index measures acute poverty through overlapping deprivations in health, education, and living standards, rather than by income alone. Each household is scored against ten indicators grouped into three dimensions, and the index combines the share of people who are poor with the average intensity of their deprivations, producing a single figure that income statistics cannot reveal.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Use Vulnerability Scan: identify households deprived in several dimensions at once rather than merely low-income. - Use Policy Targeting: direct interventions to the specific dimension where a region is most deprived.
Anchor fast decisions
Income is a proxy that misses whether a household has clean water, schooling, or a solid roof. By counting deprivations across dimensions simultaneously and weighting them, the index catches people whose cash income hides severe material and human shortfalls, making the overlap of disadvantages, rather than the total, the unit of measurement.
MINIMUM ACTION
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