The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: how can it inform rural poverty reduction policies?

SDG 1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. This is requiring countries to complement monetary measures of  poverty with a multidimensional one. The Global MPI was launched in 2010 by OPHI and UNDP, and has been updated periodically since. It measures acute multidimensional poverty by capturing the acute deprivations that people face with respect to education, health and living standards. The indicator covers 101 developing countries and it allows for comparisons across countries and over time. In this webinar Adriana Conconi will present the main advantages of the Global MPI compared to traditional measures of monetary poverty such as the World Bank’s dollar-a-day approach. She will also discuss what the Index can tell about rural poverty and how it can be applied to guide policies and strategies at the country level.

Speakers:

Adriana Conconi is the Executive Director at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), where 
she has been working since 2011. She holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from 
Harvard University, as well as M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata 
(UNLP), Argentina. Prior to joining OPHI, she was a Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y 
Sociales (CEDLAS) at the UNLP, and a Lecturer at UNLP and Universidad de San Andres, Argentina.

Carolina Trivelli currently works as Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP). She is an 
Economist and holds a MSc in Agricultural Economics from The Pennsylvania State University. She serves as Chair 
of the Board of Pagos Digitales Peruanos S.A. She is a member of the Board of Kunan (a social entrepreneurship 
network) and of Busara Center. She also serves at the International Advisory Board of RIMISP (Latin American 
Center for Rural Development), is a member of the High Level Panel of the ID4D Initiative, board member of 
Agrobanco, and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Measuring Poverty (INEI) and the Fiscal 
Committee of Peru, an independent body appointed to oversee the country's fiscal policies. She is currently a columnist 
for El Comercio, a national newspaper. She works as an independent consultant for several international organizations. 
She is a former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru and has worked as Managing Director of Pagos 
Digitales Peruanos and Director General of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.