Current Affairs Question - 01 April 2018

International Rankings, Reports, Survey And Index

Multidimensional Poverty Index


Consider the following statements:

  1. Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) identifies people’s deprivations across four key dimensions – health, income, education and living standards.
  2. Multidimensional Poverty Index is published by United Nations.
  3. Sabina Alkire and James Foster are credited for creating a new method for measuring multidimensional poverty, known as the Alkire-Foster (AF) method.
  4. Alkire-Foster is based on the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures, which involves counting the different types of deprivation that individuals experience at the same time, such as a lack of education or employment, or poor health or living standards.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

A
1 only
B
2 and 3
C
3 and 4
D
None of the above
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