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Launch of Lebanon’s first Multidimensional Poverty Index

Launch of Lebanon’s first Multidimensional Poverty Index · March 2022
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CAS, in partnership with the World Bank, is launching Lebanon’s first Multidimensional Poverty Index, based on the nationally representative 2018–2019 Labour Force and Household Living Conditions Survey.

The event includes a presentation of the MPI methodology and main findings, highlighting the incidence and intensity of poverty across Lebanon, as well as the contributions of education, health, employment, and living standards to deprivation.