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The Multidimensional Poverty Index only has one indicator to assess housing quality – whether floors are made of dirt, sand or dung. So these houses in Manila would not be classified as sub-standard (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Another underestimate of urban poverty
… The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014 (MPI), launched on 16 June, says 85 per cent of people … sample surveys of the kind from which the Multidimensional Poverty Index is constructed do not serve this purpose well. One way forward … The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Another underestimate of urban poverty …
Insight, 18 June 2014
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Addressing climate and conflict-related loss and damage in fragile states: a focus on Mali
… issues. Ranked 188 out of 193 countries in the 2022 Human Development Index, Mali faces protracted conflict, escalating climate …
Publication, 03 April 2025
People queuing up in front of government ration centre to get food grain
Food security to crumble in face of climate change
… shocks, research from IIED suggests. Data from a new food security index shows how even wealthy and higher-income developing countries will …
News, 23 March 2026
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Modelling demand for catastrophic flood index-based insurance in Da Nang City, Vietnam: Using choice experiments
… performance due to a lack of well-designed insurance products. Index-based insurance is one measure to bridge that gap and to cope with … show that households living in Da Nang have a high demand for flood index-based insurance. About 87 per cent of total respondents are willing to pay for index-based insurance, and expect reasonable insurance premiums to be …
Publication, 01 June 2014
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Sustainability index of rural water services: Burkina Faso and Niger
… Sustainability index of rural water services: Burkina Faso and Niger …
Publication, 01 August 2014
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Food security in changing climates: social protection must respond to unfolding crises
… on analysis carried out using the Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience (ASPIRE) toolkit in eight countries: Bangladesh, …
Publication, 19 September 2024
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Delivering anticipatory social protection: country readiness assessment
… This study uses the Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience (ASPIRE) tool to evaluate the readiness and …
Publication, 29 October 2023
Two people bend down to pick up tomatos
A homegrown vision of commercial agriculture in Nepal that puts small-scale farmers at its heart
… into question. Nepal ranks 81 st out of 121 on the Global Hunger Index , categorising hunger levels as ‘moderate’. But it is high levels …
Insight, 04 May 2023
A woman, surrounded by a standing group of people outside, points to the floor where there are brightly coloured markings.
Tackling climate change loss and damage by strengthening anticipatory risk response under social protection programmes
… better programme design and delivery. Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience (ASPIRE) IIED has developed ASPIRE, which is a …
Project, 29 October 2023
A farmer in Tanzania shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Farmers in developing countries, and women farmers in particular, find it difficult to get multi-peril crop insurance (Photo: Anne Wangalachi, CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change
… offer protection to these farmers a new form of insurance, known as index-based insurance, is gaining currency, particularly in the developing world. It pays out according to a predetermined index for asset and investment losses, such as the loss of agricultural crops.  The index, made before the insurance period starts, calculates deviations …
Insight, 16 July 2015