We Need New Ways To Measure Poverty, UN Meeting Told

Hey UN, We Need Better Ways To Measure Poverty
Men wait their turn in a food line at an IDP camp near Naivasha.
Men wait their turn in a food line at an IDP camp near Naivasha.

The international community needs to move away from using economic benchmarks to measure development progress if it is serious about ending extreme poverty, a meeting at the UN has been told.

At a side event at the UN general assembly in New York on Tuesday, hosted by the Global Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network, representatives from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (Ophi) and ministers and officials from Latin America, Nigeria and the Philippines, argued that adopting a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) alongside economic measures would allow countries to get a more nuanced picture of poverty and whether progress towards addressing it was being made.

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