IATI. eAtlas of the Millennium Development Goals. Tracking the Millennium Development Goals. Eldis - Welcome to Eldis. WDRs. Global Poverty Data Sets Downloads. Introduction The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live.
Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers, development agencies, and the poor themselves in designing interventions to reduce poverty. OPHI's Alkire Foster Method for Measuring Multidimensional Poverty. Most countries of the world define poverty by income.
Yet poor people themselves define their poverty much more broadly, to include lack of education, health, housing, empowerment, humiliation, employment, personal security and more. No one indicator, such as income, is uniquely able to capture the multiple aspects that contribute to poverty. Multidimensional poverty encompasses a range of deprivations that a household may suffer. The number of indicators and specific indicators used depend on the purpose of the measure.
Common purposes include national poverty measures that reflect changes over time, targeting of services or conditional cash transfers and monitoring and evaluation. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) What is multidimensional poverty?
Poverty is often defined by one-dimensional measures, such as income. But no one indicator alone can capture the multiple aspects that constitute poverty. Multidimensional poverty is made up of several factors that constitute poor people’s experience of deprivation – such as poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standard, lack of income (as one of several factors considered), disempowerment, poor quality of work and threat from violence.