Please note the earlier start time of this week's seminar, which begins at 2pm GMT / 9am EST.

This seminar proposes a Moderate Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) member countries – a measure of multidimensional poverty which goes beyond acute deprivations.

This measure, known as the IsDB Moderate MPI (IMMPI), uses the most recent available DHS and MICS data for 40 IsDB member countries, spanning low- and lower-middle-income countries in multiple regions and covering about 1.7 billion people. It applies a superset approach relative to the global MPI, ensuring that everyone identified as deprived by the global MPI is also considered deprived, and consequently poor, according to the IMMPI.

Join us to learn more in this seminar, which will demonstrate how acute and moderate deprivations interact and provide a more nuanced picture of poverty beyond the standard global MPI framework.