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BHOPAL: It's not the best of news in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, but the Global Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index 2018 has ranked MP the fourth poorest in the country, with Alirajpur the poorest district in India — with the almost same parameters as Sierra Leone in Sub-Saharan Africa, it says.The multi-dimensional poverty index covers over 100 developing countries and has been a part of UNDP’s Human Development Report ever since it was developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). This is first time that MP has featured in the poverty index — there is no mention of the state or Alirajpur in at least the previous two reports.Updates
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Madhya Pradesh is 4th poorest state in country: Global study
Ankur Sirothia | TNN | Sep 30, 2018, 12:29 IST
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BHOPAL: It’s not the best of news in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, but the Global Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index 2018 has ranked MP the fourth poorest in the country, with Alirajpur the poorest district in India — with the almost same parameters as Sierra Leone in Sub-Saharan Africa, it says.
The multi-dimensional poverty index covers over 100 developing countries and has been a part of UNDP’s Human Development Report ever since it was developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). This is first time that MP has featured in the poverty index — there is no mention of the state or Alirajpur in at least the previous two reports.
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The report — based on data from 2015-16 — says Bihar is the poorest with more than half of its population living in poverty, followed by Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. These four states hold 22% of the country’s land area and 34% population but account for over half of the country’s poor — a whopping 196 million of the 364 million — says the study. What’s more, 50% ST population in these states is still poor despite decades of welfare schemes and reservation in education and jobs.