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6.4 - Absolute Poverty

This document discusses poverty, including definitions of absolute and multidimensional poverty. It notes that the UNDP replaced the Human Poverty Index with the Multidimensional Poverty Index in 2010 to account for negative interaction effects of multiple deprivations. It also mentions that chronic poverty among the poorest poses particular challenges and that two factors that can help end poverty are poverty programs and the rate of economic growth.

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6.4 - Absolute Poverty

This document discusses poverty, including definitions of absolute and multidimensional poverty. It notes that the UNDP replaced the Human Poverty Index with the Multidimensional Poverty Index in 2010 to account for negative interaction effects of multiple deprivations. It also mentions that chronic poverty among the poorest poses particular challenges and that two factors that can help end poverty are poverty programs and the rate of economic growth.

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Absolute Poverty:

Extent and Magnitude


Multidimensional Poverty Index
- In 2010, the UNDP replaced the HPI with its
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
- The MPI takes into account that there are negative
interaction effects when people have multiple
deprivations—worse poverty than can be seen by simply
adding up separate deprivations for the whole country,
then taking averages, and only then combining them.
Chronic
Poverty
Problems of the poorest of the poor pose particular challenges.
Two Factors To
End The Poverty
Poverty The rate of
programs economic
growth
Growth and
Poverty
Five reasons why policies focused toward reducing poverty
levels need not lead to a slower rate of growth

Fourth
Fifth
A reduction of mass
Third Raising the income poverty can stimulate
Second
Low incomes and low levels of the poor healthy economic
First The rich in many levels of living for will stimulate an expansion by acting as a
overall increase in powerful material and
Widespread poverty contemporary poor the poor, which are
countries are manifested in poor the demand for psychological incentive
creates conditions in
locally produced to widespread public
which the poor have no generally not noted health, nutrition, and
for their frugality or education. necessity products participation in the
access to credit
for their desire to development process
save and invest
Thank

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