INDIA’S OWN ‘NATIONAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX’ – UNDERSTANDING AND MAKING SENSE
National Multidimensional Poverty Index (NMPI) baseline report defines ‘Poverty’ as the deprivation in crucial and basic parameters of health, education and living standards. Multidimensional Poverty Index is a measure to record and understand poverty on the basis of daily deprivations in three key dimensions – health, education, and standard of living (1/3rd weightage given to…