Following a lengthy consultative process, the first national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Egypt was constructed to capture country-specific multidimensional poverty challenges, with a view to becoming an official measure of poverty in the country that could be monitored regularly. The report presents the Egypt national MPI in 2022, lays out the major challenges and priorities for policy action and discusses the effectiveness of social welfare programmes and macroeconomic policies in alleviating multidimensional poverty. The MPI defines deprivations in human capability and decent living, divided across seven dimensions: education, health, housing, services, employment, social protection and food security.
To read the full article: click here
Comments are closed, but trackbacks and pingbacks are open.