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 Program and the University of Oxford. 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.
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