Abstract

The paper describes the concept and measurement of multi-dimensional poverty index and analyses quantitatively in India along with across the world. It finds a significant negative relation between growth and multidimensional poverty index. The paper studies exclusively on the several researches on MPI and its improvement over the income poverty. The paper found that Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region and Chand is the poorest country in the world according to MPI. In 2015-16, India’s multi-dimensional poverty index was 0.117 which was reduced to 0.066 in 2019-21i.e., poverty has reduced to a certain limit. In rural area, MPI decreased from 0.154 to 0.086 and in urban area MPI decreased from 0.039 to 0.023 during 2015-16-2019-21 which implies that rural poverty has reduced much higher than urban area. The paper showed a clear link between sustainable development goals and MPI of India based on the approach of NITI Aayog where SDG-1 to SDG-6, SDG-10 and SDG-13 were emphasised.

Keywords: Multi-dimensional Poverty Index, Sustainable Development Goals, Head Count Ratio, Intensity of Poverty, indicators of deprivations