The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford almost a month back, released a report on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The report stated that in India “415 million people exited poverty between 2005/06 and 2019/21….they left multidimensional poverty in a 15-year period—a historic change.” And according to the “Sustainable Development Goal target 1.2 ‘of reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions by 2030’ is possible to achieve.” Meanwhile, recent photographs from the streets of the country’s capital paint another reality.
Children’s Day: Poverty, Pollution, Poor Diet Continue To Plague Street Kids In India
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford almost a month back, released a report on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The report stated that in India “415 million people exited poverty between 2005/06 and 2019/21….they left multidimensional poverty in a 15-year period—a historic change.” And according to the “Sustainable Development Goal target 1.2 ‘of reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions by 2030’ is possible to achieve.” Meanwhile, recent photographs from the streets of the country’s capital paint another reality.
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