Costa Rica’s Multidimensional Poverty Index was created in 2015 through a partnership between the public and private sectors, along with OPHI, as a complement to income-based poverty measurement. Two years later, the index is being used as the main criterion for budget allocation in public institutions responsible for social programmes.

Phuba is 71 years old and lives in a small village in the Chukha region of Bhutan. She is a widow and has one son and two daughters. She lives with her son, her daughter-in-law, and her grandson, Pelden.

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.