an individual is considered poor if deprived of at least of these variables taking into account their relative weights the indicator portrays the incidence intensity severity and nature of deprivation this poverty rate shrank by half from in to in figure panel d mainly thanks to wider health care coverage increased school attendance among yearolds better access to early childhood services and reduced longterm unemployment the ruralurban gap is higher for the multidimensional than the income approach partly reflecting the critical lack of infrastructure in particular water provision and sewage low education achievement and the prevalence of informal employment in rural areas