![]() ![]() This has all happened without drastic measures such as circuit-breaker lockdowns, which have been used in places like New Zealand and Australia to get outbreaks under control. On February 9, the capital Delhi reported zero virus deaths for the first time in nearly nine months, according to COVID19INDIA, a website that crowdsources Covid-19 data from official sources. ![]() Daily new cases have plummeted, dropping from a peak of over 90,000 infections in September down to just over 10,000 a day in February. And the virus was spreading through crowded slums, home to millions of the country’s poorest people. Critically ill Covid-19 patients were being turned away from hospitals. That really is cause for hope.Six months ago, India was in crisis. The numbers of MPI poor reduced from 55% of the population to some 16% in fifteen years. Unfortunately, the data was collected before COVID but, she says, the report shows there were major reductions in poverty in India. ![]() This data provides information which can be used to make a difference.’ ‘With how the school lunch programme worked – it is an example of how action on one area of poverty can have an impact on several. According to Professor Alkire, ‘There is no magic bullet for poverty but this information provides understanding.’ Using this data, she says, policymakers around the world can identify the exact factors comprising poverty and design actions that are more efficient in ending it. There is no magic bullet for poverty but this information provides understanding 'For example, 374 million poor people are deprived in nutrition, sanitation, housing and cooking fuel at the same time 445 million lack both electricity and clean drinking water, and 4.1 million are deprived in all included indicators. Professor Sabina Alkire, of Oxford’s Poverty and Human Development Initiative, says the MPI reveals the interlinked nature of poverty for each of the millions who are impoverished, ‘The report is innovative because it looks at the precise bundles of deprivations for each poor person and shows exactly which deprivations people are experiencing. We need some good news and India’s data are very encouraging.’ The poorest states, and children, reduced poverty the fastest. This finding (which is a lower bound) – that a huge country can more than halve multidimensional poverty in 15 years – really is a cause for hope. We need some good news and India’s data are very encouragingĭr Usha Kanagaratnam, who leads the global MPI estimations at Oxford, shared, ‘In India 415 million people left poverty in 15 years. The poorest states.reduced poverty the fastest. The numbers are daunting, according to the team. Powerful poverty interventions are needed, because the data do not yet represent the post-pandemic world – where resources are scarce and poverty likely increased. The Multidimensional Poverty Index shows 1.2 billion people in 111 developing countries are living in many layers of poverty but, by showing granular information about specific poverty markers, the data could enable policymakers to unbundle the layers of deprivation and alleviate poverty. ![]() Poverty can be overcome with on-the-ground strategies enabling millions of people around the world to move out of ‘multidimensional poverty’, according to research published today by the United Nations Development Programme and the University of Oxford. ![]()
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