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Report reveals challenges of UN's new sustainable development goals

More than 1.6 billion people are living in multidimensional poverty around the world, according to new analysis from the OPHI (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), a research centre at the University of Oxford.

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Unlike global monetary poverty measures, the MPI can be broken down to give poverty levels for 884 regions within countries, as well as highlighting the different ways that people are poor. For example, the figures reveal that, of the 1.6 billion people living in multidimensional poverty:

-more than 1.2 billion people don't have adequate sanitation;

-over 1 billion are living on dirt floors;

-around 900 million do not have electricity;

-roughly 900 million people live in a household where someone is malnourished; and more than half a billion live in a home in which no-one has completed five years of school.

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http://phys.org/news/2015-06-reveals-sustainable-goals.html