CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Despite the significant reductions, however, the largest number of poor people in the world - 228.9 million - lived in India in 2020. India’s MPI value and incidence of poverty were both more than halved.

Detailed explanation-2: -Niger was the country with the highest prevalence of multidimensional poverty in the world based on surveys from 2016 to 2021. The West African country was given an index score of 0.6 on a scale from zero to one.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was developed by OPHI with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2010. It is a part of UNDP’s Human Development Report (HDR) and is released annually. MPI 2022 was released in October 2022. India ranked 62 in the Global MPI 2020 which ranked 107 countries.

Detailed explanation-4: -India ranked 107th out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022, down from the 101st position the previous year. As the world gears up for the year end, we look at how India fared in the various global indices that were announced in 2022.

Detailed explanation-5: -Poverty among Children: Poverty among children fell faster in absolute terms, although India still has the highest number of poor children in the world. More than one in five children in India are poor compared with around one in seven adults.