Electricity demand is high because of extreme heat in summer and cold winters, yet housing standards remain low. Prepayment electricity meters in many remote communities force households to pay for ...

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 20 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) declined from 0.0037 in 2022 to 0.0025 in 2024, signalling continued improvement in overall multidimensional ...

In Nusa Tenggara Timur, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is ...

Abstract: Over fifty percent of the population in Tanzania suffers from multidimensional poverty. Because of the high poverty rate and slow improvement, ending poverty by the year 2030 remains ...

A former minister of national planning Clement Agba, has exonerated the Federal Government of blame in multidimensional poverty in the country. Agba, who served in the Muhammadu Buhari Administration, ...

Ghana’s poverty rate declined from 24.9% to 21.9% in less than one year. More than 360,000 people exited multidimensional poverty in Q3 2025. Rural areas and northern regions remain the most affected.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, 16 January 2026 -- The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB / the Bank) in collaboration with the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we have used consumption expenditure survey data for 2011-2012, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 focussing on rural poverty. Apart from the headcount ratio, we have used alternative ...

ABSTRACT: Poverty is one of the world’s greatest challenges, hence the conceptualisation of its causes and solutions are critical to policy and academic debate. The emergency the Capability Approach ...