Why are Sri Lanka’s efforts to develop Child Multidimensional Poverty Index commendable?  

Hearty congratulations to Sri Lanka for pioneering the Child Multidimensional Poverty Index (Child MPI).  As described here,  the recently developed Sri Lanka Child MPI measures poverty among children aged 0-4. The tool covers four poverty dimensions and twelve corresponding deprivation indicators (Table 1). It considers a child to be multidimensionally poor if he/she is deprived …

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