New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

The Federal Government is adopting multidimensional index to tackle poverty, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday. He said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has been mobilised as tool for ...

By Juliet ETEFE The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has called for expanded National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) coverage, ...

Unmarried cohabiting couples recorded the highest incidence of multidimensional poverty by marital status, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reported.

Ghana has witnessed a significant reduction in multidimensional poverty under the leadership of President John Dramani Mahama ...

(MENAFN- Caribbean News Global) KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB / the Bank) in collaboration with the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) and the Oxford Poverty and Human ...

A former Minister of State for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, has stated that the Federal Government is ...

The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the forthcoming election in Bayelsa, Udengs Eradiri has described as alarming and disastrous the ranking of the state as the second poorest in the ...

This paper examines multidimensional poverty in Brazil in 2000 and 2010, based on the microdata of the Demographic Censuses. Our analysis is disaggregated into five classes of municipalities according ...