This joint virtual event with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Report Office (HDRO) took place on Monday, January 25th, 2021. The event featured Sabina Alkire of OPHI to discuss "Changes over time in the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index". José Manuel Roche of OPHI and Jaya Krishnakumar of the Geneva School of Economics and Management provided discussant remarks.

This paper provides a highly visual, intuitive yet systematic assessment of trends in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) over time across 80 countries and five billion people in developing regions. The analysis draws on data from 2000-2019, to document how the MPI, incidence and intensity of poverty has changed in these countries, and what indicators drove that change. Such a systematic review is an essential step towards clarifying the Sustainable Development Goal’s (SDGs) Target 1.2 to halve the proportion of people who are poor in many dimensions, and furthers the call for consistent, high quality, timely, and policy-relevant data on the interlinked deprivations that people living in multidimensional poverty endure.

In a novel step, the paper also compares trends across multiple national and international poverty measures. We advance Sir Tony Atkinson's work on global poverty trends which emphasized the need for triangulation of poverty trends by different measurement approaches to provide a better understanding of, and policy response to, poverty. In particular, we graphically track trends in the incidence of multidimensional poverty according to global and national measures, as well as to national and international monetary poverty lines, to provide a more complete picture of changes in poverty over a particular period for each of the 80 countries.

These seminars are organised jointly with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at Oxford University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. They are hosted by IIEP Co-Director James Foster, GWU.

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