UN / MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX

“Disparities in multi-dimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions,” according to the UNDP global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today, the United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the press conference in New York. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:13
• Production Date: 7 October 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: POVERTY
• Geographic Subject: BOLIVIA; INDIA
• MAMS Id: 2665736
• Parent Id: 2665736
• Alternate Title: unifeed211007d

Description

STORY: UN / MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX
TRT: 1:13
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 7 OCTOBER 2021, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

FILE

1.Exterior shot, UN Headquarters

7 OCTOBER 2021, NEW YORK CITY

2.Wide shot, press room
3.Wide shot, spokesperson at the podium
4.Cutaway, reporters
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“The UN Development Programme today released its global multidimensional poverty index which reveals stark inequalities among ethnic groups. The index, which examines the level and composition of multidimensional poverty across 109 countries, covering 5.9 billion people, found that disparities in multidimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions.”
6.Cutaway, reporters
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“For example, in Bolivia, indigenous communities account for about 44 percent of the population, but represents 75 percent of multidimensionally poor people. The figures are also stark in India, were five out of six multidimensionally poor people were from lower tribes or castes.”
8.Cutaway, reporters
9.Wide shot, spokesperson at the podium

Storyline

“Disparities in multi-dimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical and subnational regions,” according to the UNDP global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today, the United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the press conference in New York.

The MPI, produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative measures poverty by considering various deprivations experienced by people in their daily lives, including poor health, insufficient education and a low standard of living. Today’s report examines the level and composition of multidimensional poverty across 109 countries covering 5.9 billion people and presents an ethnicity/race/caste disaggregation for 41 countries with available information.

The report finds that, in some cases, disparities in multidimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are greater than disparities across geographical subnational regions. Indeed, when the MPI is disaggregated by ethnic group, the range in values is greater than that across all 109 countries and all other disaggregations tested.

It also shows how, within a country, multidimensional poverty among different ethnic groups can vary immensely. For example, the difference in the percentage of people who are multidimensionally poor across ethnic groups is more than 70 percentage points in Gabon and Nigeria.

In Latin America, indigenous peoples are among the poorest. For instance, in Bolivia indigenous communities account for about 44 percent of the population but represent 75 percent of multidimensionally poor people. The figures are also stark in India where five out of six multidimensionally poor people were from lower tribes or castes.

The multidimensional analysis also maps out next steps. The MPI combines the incidence and the intensity of poverty. The two poorest ethnic groups in Gambia - the Wollof and the Sarahule - have roughly the same MPI value, but their deprivations differ, suggesting different policy actions are needed to reduce multidimensional poverty.

An intrahousehold analysis of multidimensional poverty focused on gender is also included. Worldwide about two-thirds of multidimensionally poor people (836 million) live in households where no woman or girl completed at least six years of schooling. One-sixth of all multidimensionally poor people (215 million) live in households in which at least one boy or man has completed six or more years of schooling but no girl or woman has. The report also finds that women and girls living in multidimensional poverty are at higher risk of intimate partner violence.