Multi Dimensional Poverty Indexes With Special Reference To Covid 19 Pandemic Crises – Economic Analysis

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has jeopardized progress in reducing multidimensional poverty. Substantial impacts on multidimensional poverty are anticipated through two indicators on which the global MPI is based that are being severely affected by the pandemic— nutrition and children’s school attendance. Multidimensional poverty if deprivation across those indicators increases to different extents. The analysis includes 70 countries with 4.8 billion people. The COVID-19 pandemic has also disrupted livelihoods and food supply chains globally. According to the World Food Programme, the number of people facing acute food insecurity may increase by 130 million across 55 countries. The simulations of the impact on multidimensional poverty extend this to all 70 countries covered in the analysis, and the moderate scenario for nutrition anticipates that about 25 percent of multi dimensionally poor or vulnerable people who were not undernourished before the pandemic become undernourished. This study is based on secondary data collected from various government records. In addition, Literacy, access to cooking fuels, access to electricity, access to toilet facilities, access to drinking water and access to pucca houses has been collected from the sources of Census 2011.