Since 1997, the annual UNDP Report tries to measure poverty in the Third World using a human poverty index that considers other criteria than monetary income. These are : the probability at birth of ...

some countries manage to attenuate the impact of that poverty by access to services made available to the population. At the top of the list of such countries in 2002, were Uruguay, Costa Rica, Chile ...

Parents’ education, occupation and assets account for most of the inequality of access to quality education. The D-index measures how an opportunity, in this case test scores over a given threshold, ...

For its annual flagship Human Development Report in 2010, the UNDP replaced its human poverty index with an MPI constructed at OPHI by Alkire and Maria Emma Santos, now an assistant economics ...

An equality-of-opportunity profile can help policy makers design effective public policies for an equitable expansion of human opportunities, thus leveling the playing field for all children. The ...

This may mean that you’re not able to get a place on this course. This course examines world poverty and inequality through the regime of international law aimed at the protection of human rights. It ...

In the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development adopted in September 2015, the United Nations recognizes that eradicating poverty in all ... humanitarian crises and human suffering within and ...