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Anti-poverty Initiatives: Reducing Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation

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No Poverty

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Poverty is a state of deprivation, especially concerning basic necessities like food, clothing, and shelter. However, over the period, the scope of basic necessity has widened enough to include health and education. To measure poverty across the time and regions, a standardization of minimum money income in absolute terms is considered as a poverty line. The World Bank, in 2015, defined a global poverty line at $1.90 a day based on purchasing power parity (PPP) at 2011 prices. The proportion of population earning less than $1.90 is known as the poverty rate or headcount index for the given region or a country. In 2015, about 10% of the world’s population was considered to be living in absolute poverty on less than $1.9 a day (World Bank 2019b).

Multidimensional poverty attempts to capture acute deprivations faced by an individual across ten elements of human capability, if people are deprived of a third out of ten (weighted) indicators, they are identified as...

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  1. School of Business and Law, Navrachana University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

    Hitesh Bhatia

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  6. University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Business School, Universidade Positivo - UP, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

    Fernanda Frankenberger

  2. Business School, PUCPR, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

    Fernanda Frankenberger

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Bhatia, H. (2021). Anti-poverty Initiatives: Reducing Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95714-2_63

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