Studying inequality and poverty in the Arab region is a challenging task. As pointed out in Atamanov and others (2020), the Arab region has insufficient statistical capacity. Few countries survey their population on income and expenditure. In Arab countries that run these types of surveys, statistical offices perform this exercise irregularly. In this context, analysts have to find alternative approaches to assess inequality and poverty in the region. One alternative approach is to look at multidimensional poverty in a multinational poverty index (MPI) framework (Alkire and Santos, 2014; Alkire and Foster, 2011). This approach relies on the type of data the analyst usually finds in the demographic health surveys. ESCWA and others (2020) has adopted the approach to the Arab region's specificity. Following the standard approach of building such an index, ESCWA chose the dimensions and indicators to reflect the development goals of the Arab region. Unfortunately, because demographic health surveys do not include information on household income or expenditure, the Arab multidimensional poverty index does not include a monetary poverty dimension.