Tackling child malnutrition, Shivpuri District Hospital, Madhya Pradesh, India - Feb 2010
Business may be booming in India but basic problems such as child malnutrition are still a huge problem. More than 410 million people live in poverty in the Indian states researchers at Oxford University found and the "intensity" of the poverty in parts of India is equal to, if not worse than, that in Africa. For example, when the central Indian Madhya Pradesh state, which has a population of 70 million, was compared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has 62 million inhabitants, the two were found to have near-identical levels of poverty. The study is based on a "multidimensional poverty index", or MPI, developed by specialists at Oxford. This MPI will be used for the first time in the authoritative and influential United Nations Human Development Report when it is published this autumn - replacing a simpler method of calculating poverty introduced over a decade ago.
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Location: Shivpuri District Hospital, Madhya Pradesh, India - Feb 2010
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