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Weekly Report - 1 September 2011 (WR-11-35)
COLOMBIA: Santos embraces new tool
Colombia is now one of the “best-placed countries in the world to measure poverty”. President Juan Manuel Santos made this claim after his government adopted the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) implemented by the UN for the first time in 2010, to understand poverty beyond simplistic income-only based indicators: the MPI also includes other variables such as access to education and healthcare [WR-10-30]. Cautious critics say it is a move in the right direction but only if its binding targets are used to design better poverty reduction initiatives and not simply for political convenience: the use of the MPI would show poverty levels in Colombia ‘plummeting’ overnight simply by changing the methodology.
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