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  A new report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) titled ‘Multi-dimensional Poverty-Ghana’, has established that 14 million of the country’s total population of 31 million are multi-dimensionally poor. The report defined multi-dimensional poverty to mean many overlapping deprivations faced by an individual at the same time.  It mentioned such deprivations to include lack or limited access to quality health care, housing, education, nutrition, sanitation, water and money. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), assessed poverty in a more complex form than monetary deprivation. Based on the Ghana Living Standards Survey of 2016/2017 and the 2011 and 2018 Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, the report established that inequality between rural and urban populations remained a challenge, with the incidence of multi-dimensional poverty in the rural areas being more than twice that of the urban areas.

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