New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

Multidimensional poverty measurement has transformed our understanding of deprivation by moving beyond income-based metrics to capture the intersecting deficiencies in health, education, living ...

A staggering 455 million of the world's poor live in countries exposed to violent conflict, hindering and even reversing hard-won progress to reduce poverty, according to the latest update of the ...

Multidimensional energy poverty refers to the simultaneous deprivation of households’ access to modern energy services across several domains, including electricity supply, clean cooking fuels, ...

Instead, context-specific institutional and governance systems stand as the core driver of long-term poverty reduction and ...

Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today chaired a high-level review meeting to assess the current status of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in Jammu and Kashmir and deliberated upon targeted ...

Jammu and Kashmir’s multidimensional poverty rate has dropped significantly from 12.56 per cent in 2015-16 to 4.80 per cent ...

SRINAGAR: In a cause for concern, about 6.39 lakh people belonging to around 1.28 lakh families in Jammu and Kashmir are ...

For decades, global poverty reduction efforts have focused on the short-term transfer of resources, aid delivery, humanitarian assistance and conditional financial support. While these measures help ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution.