Global multidimensional poverty index 2019 : illuminating inequalities by United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report Office, Oxford Poverty And Human Development Initiative

“…The publication is jointly developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford and the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report Office (UNDP HDRO). The global MPI provides a comprehensive and in-depth picture of global poverty – in all its dimensions – and monitors progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 – to end poverty in all its forms. …”

Towards a global assets indicator: re-assessing the assets indicator in the global multidimensional poverty index by Vollmer, F, Alkire, S

“…The joint decision of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) to revise the global MPI in 2018 to align it with the Sustainable Development Goals and to best monitor progress towards “leaving no one behind” provided the opportunity to assess the statistical validities of the assets indicator contained in the Original MPI, jointly designed by OPHI and UNDP Human Development Report Office (HDRO) in 2010, and an assets indicator included in an Innovative MPI, which was developed by UNDP HDRO in 2014. …”

The new global MPI 2018: aligning with the sustainable development goals by Alkire, S, Jahan, S

“… <p style="text-align:justify;"> Early in 2018, the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) agreed to adjust and unify their methodologies on poverty measurement and consider indicator improvements, in order to better monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…”

Measuring human development and human deprivations by Seth, S, Villar, A

“…This paper is devoted to the discussion of the measurement of human development and poverty, especially in United Nations Development Program’s global Human Development Reports. We first outline the methodological evolution of different indices over the last two decades, focusing on the well-known Human Development Index (HDI) and the poverty indices. …”