Culture & Lifestyle

One in five Egyptians faces multidimensional poverty, according to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a data-driven framework recently adopted by Egypt to understand and tackle human living conditions. The MPI, developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), assesses poverty through 19 indicators spanning seven dimensions such as education, health, housing, essential services, employment, social protection, and food security. Individuals are classified as “poor” if they experience deprivation in at…