Sub-Saharan Africa shows largest overlaps between monetary and non-monetary poverty
Poverty is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. When poor people are asked in participatory studies what makes them feel poor, they indicate a wide range of deprivations: not having enough to eat, having inadequate housing material, being sick, having limited or no formal education, having no work, and living in unsafe neighborhoods. Multidimensional poverty measures, such as the Global MPI produced by UNDP and OPHI, attempt to reflect this complex experience and inform policies to address it. Following the recommendations of the Atkinson’s commission on global poverty, the World Bank added its own multidimensional poverty measure (MPM) in 2018 to complement its commonly reported poverty measures that focus more narrowly on monetary poverty (more details on the measure are available here).