Ambassadors and high level representatives of the Embassies of eight Central American countries visited the OPHI offices at the University of Oxford. El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic already have national measures of multidimensional poverty. Each measure is unique and used to shape policies that impact poverty directly. 

A roundtable titled, ‘The Way Forward of the UN Development System on MICs,’ took place on 31 January 2018, in New York, US. Governments discussed the needs of Middle Income Countries (MICs) in the context of the ongoing process of reform of the UN development system, aimed at aligning it with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

The report is the first update of Bhutan’s national Multidimensional Poverty Index since 2012, and was developed by the National Statistics Bureau and Oxford University’s leading centre on multidimensional poverty, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI).

The new index shows that 28.6% of Nepalis are still multidimensionally poor – meaning that their lives are battered by several deprivations simultaneously. But it also reveals that Nepal actually halved its official MPI between 2006 and 2014, from 0.313 to 0.127.

On Thursday, August 24, Costa Rica will launch the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).