The D-index measures how an opportunity, in this case test scores over a given threshold, would need to be re-allocated across groups such that all groups would be as likely to achieve a test score ...

For its annual flagship Human Development Report in 2010, the UNDP replaced its human poverty index with an MPI constructed at OPHI by Alkire and Maria Emma Santos, now an assistant economics ...

The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) measures how individual circumstances (i.e., characteristics -- such as place of residence, gender, and education of the household head -- that should not determine ...

Germany has a poverty problem. Despite the country’s vast wealth, the German social security system is failing many people. How many? Let’s look at some numbers. The latest official statistics show 14 ...

The United Nations Development Programme replaced its Human Poverty Index, which focused on survival, literacy and standard of living, with Alkire and Foster’s MPI in 2010, although certain ...