Abstract
Multidimensional poverty is currently at the heart of many theoretical, empirical and institutional debates. South Asia has the
world’s highest levels of poverty where 49% of people are multidimensionally poor. Poor and vulnerable households are
predominantly in rural and mountainous areas of Nepal. This is a case study conducted in Bajhang district of Nepal, where
we have selected five Village Development Committees to conduct our research. Well-structured questionnaires were
entertained as face to face interview. This paper applies Alkire-Foster Methodology 2011 for measuring the
multidimensional poverty. At poverty cut off, k=3, it was found that 49.7% of people are multidimensionally poor.
Dimension wise breakdown shows that cooking fuel, flooring, nutrition, electricity, child mortality and schooling have major
contributors among overall multidimensional poverty. This research is important for policy makers to provide much clearer
guidance for anti-poverty policy on the basis of different dimensions, climatic zones, areas and demographic distributions.
