Talking about dimensions, the incidence of poverty, or deprivation cutoffs can be a headache for anyone who is not a specialist. In Colombia, the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) developed a workshop for journalists that explains these concepts in a simple and practical way. This workshop has been run in several countries in the region. Silvia Botello* from DANE gives us more details in this article.

The flow of international aid is part of any poverty reduction strategy in developing countries. Therefore, it is important to know to what extent this aid is reaching places where people face various kinds of deprivations at the same time.

The Multidimensional Poverty Index in Chile (MPI-CL) was the product of a broad dialogue that brought people from different professional and political backgrounds together. What bodies were established to develop the MPI-CL? The following article provides some of the highlights of this process.

In this edition, we are pleased to present a variety of articles from different regions of the world – Latin America, Africa and India – that illustrate the richness offered by multidimensional poverty indices (MPIs) for analysing poverty, either alone or as a complement to income measurement.