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How will the conclusions of #SocialSummit2025 shape the future of work?

The final episode of our special podcast series looks at what renewed commitments on poverty eradication, #DecentWork and social inclusion mean in practice.

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Advancing Inclusive Sustainable Development by Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing Better The G20 has emphasised the priority areas of ending poverty and hunger and reducing inequalities, including gender inequality, to achieve the SDGs.

Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in South Africa this weekend, check out OPHI’s T20 brief highlighting how multidimensional poverty and wellbeing metrics can help accelerate progress towards achieving the SDGs.

Read here: t20southafrica.org/publications...

When we measure absolute, relative and population-based change in poverty levels, we capture progress across low and high poverty contexts. A recent brief from UNECA uses the global MPI to examine poverty reduction in Africa with these perspectives.

Read more: www.uneca.org/tracking-pro...

Poverty is our greatest global challenge - and one compounded by the climate crisis. As discussions continue at #COP30 this week, it is vital to align climate action with poverty reduction efforts.

Read more in the global MPI 2025 from OPHI and UNDP: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

Ahead of the G20 summit, Jakob Dirksen asks: how are we measuring poverty and well-being?

To make progress on the SDGs and whatever comes after they “expire” in 2030, what single thing should the G20 focus their attention on?
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The scale of Hurricane Melissa's devastation, seen just as the international community prepared for #COP30, emphasises that climate talks must ensure the needs of the poorest communities are met.

Read more in Sabina Alkire & Carlos Alvarado Quesada's ODID blog: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/can-hur...

It has been a fruitful week at #SocialSummit2025. We were pleased to participate in a range of insightful events hosted by partners, alliances, and governments, continuing conversations about the key role of multidimensional measurement of poverty and wellbeing for social development.

We are honoured that Sabina Alkire will speak at the second High-level Roundtable at the #SocialSummit2025 tomorrow. This Roundtable will stress the relevance of the social development agenda as foundational to the 2030 Agenda.

Watch live on 5 Nov, 10am - 1pm AST: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c...

Why fighting poverty means tackling climate change head-on New research finds that nearly 80% of the world’s poor live in areas exposed to climate hazards — and more than half face several at once. This underscores an unavoidable truth: the goals of ending po...

Fighting poverty means tackling climate change head-on.

Read more on how these issues intersect in a new OECD blog on the global MPI 2025, from OPHI's Ricardo Nogales, Sabina Alkire, Beatriz Jambrina-Canseco, Niall Maher & HDRO UNDP's Nabamallika Dehingia: www.oecd.org/en/blogs/202...

Ending poverty is key to social development. But how do we work towards this goal?

Ahead of the #SocialSummit2025, OPHI offers five recommendations for eradicating poverty effectively - read more below.

Find out more about OPHI’s participation at Summit: ophi.org.uk/news/looking...

How do we measure development progress?

There is growing momentum to go beyond GDP. In a recent UN CDP Paper, OPHI recommends that a new framework should also include multidimensional measures of poverty & wellbeing.

Read the full paper: policy.desa.un.org/sites/defaul...

Data can make a transformational contribution to eradicating poverty. The Second World Summit on Social Development (WSSD2) presents an opportunity to act on that potential.

Read Sabina Alkire's key recommendations for WSSD2 in this CDP policy brief: www.un.org/development/...

Poverty looks different in every country included in the global MPI 2025.

With OPHI's country briefings, you can explore the findings for each country included in this year's global MPI, including national, subnational, and urban-rural data, and much more.

Read here: ophi.org.uk/global-mpi/2...

Children bear the greatest burden of multidimensional poverty.

Of the 1.1 billion people today living in multidimensional poverty, over half of them are under the age of 18.

Read more in OPHI and UNDP’s global MPI 2025: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

High temperatures are a major climate hazard today, but in countries with the highest multidimensional poverty rates, heat is expected to worsen.

Read more about how multidimensional poverty & climate hazards intersect in OPHI and UNDP's global MPI 2025 report: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

Explore the global MPI 2025 findings through visual charts & explainers in this multimedia feature from UNDP, available in English, Spanish, and French.

EN: feature.undp.org/poverty-climate-hazards
ES: feature.undp.org/poverty-climate-hazards/es/
FR: feature.undp.org/poverty-climate-hazards/fr/

Many South Asian countries have made rapid progress reducing multidimensional poverty, but the global MPI 2025 finds that 99.1% of those left in multidimensionally poverty live in regions exposed to climate hazards.

Read the full report from OPHI and UNDP to find out more:
bit.ly/globalMPI2025

Missed the launch of the global MPI 2025?

You can read highlights from our high-level speakers, reflecting on the key findings of the report, here: ophi.org.uk/news/discuss...

Or you can watch the full recording of the event here: youtu.be/af6BbbXHPJ0?...

The global MPI 2025 assesses how multidimensional poverty intersects with four key climate hazards: high heat, drought, floods, and air pollution. These four hazards are major drivers of human vulnerability.

Find out more in OPHI and UNDP's global MPI 2025: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

Middle-income countries are the hidden epicentre of multidimensional poverty.

The global MPI 2025 by OPHI and UNDP finds that nearly two thirds of multidimensionally poor people live in middle-income countries.

Read the full report: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

Thank you to our speakers for their insights at today's launch of the global MPI 2025.

It is vital to align poverty reduction efforts with climate action. Our commitment is clear: no one must be left behind.

Read the full report from OPHI and UNDP: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

Reflecting on the findings of the global MPI 2025 published today, Juan Manuel Santos highlights the importance of multilateralism for addressing the climate crisis.

Read more in this commentary on @projectsyndicate.bsky.social:

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 is now live.

The report finds that of 6.3 billion people, 1.1 billion are multidimensionally poor. Poverty is our greatest global challenge - and one compounded by the climate crisis.

Read the full report, published with UNDP: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures multidimensional poverty in over 100 countries, highlighting multiple aspects of the lived reality of poverty.

Stay tuned on Oct 17 as OPHI & UNDP launch the 2025 report.

More about the global MPI: ophi.org.uk/node/3155

How do multidimensionally poor people experience the double burden of poverty & climate change?

Join OPHI and UNDP for the launch of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 on 17 Oct, 10am EDT, to hear high-level speakers share key findings from the report.

Register now: bit.ly/GMPI2025

📣 Join OPHI and UNDP at 10am EDT on October 17 for the launch of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025, which focuses on the overlapping hardships of poverty and climate hazards.

Register now: bit.ly/GMPI2025

Deprivations Rarely Come Alone. Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Europe This article proposes a framework to analyse micro-level dynamics inherent to multidimensional poverty measures. Specifically, I use differences in deprivation transition probabilities between multid...

🚨 New paper proposes framework for dynamic analysis of multidimensional poverty!

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“If we fail to measure poverty in its full complexity, we cannot hope to design policies that freely transform lives” - Claver Gatete.

Thank you to our high-level speakers who shared valuable insights on accelerating multidimensional poverty reduction at ECA and the MPPN's UNGA side event today.

A better future for all is one in which poverty is a thing of the past.

Join UNECA and the MPPN at “The Future is Now: Addressing Multidimensional Poverty for Sustainable Development”, a high-level side event on the margins of #UNGA80.

More info: ophi.org.uk/event/future...

We also got the bonus pleasure of truly insightful commentary by Professors Jaya Krishnakumar and Sabina Alkire 🌟