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Multidimensional poverty is measured by income and lack of access to basic social services. This study uses the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) according to the Alkire and Foster method (2011) and the dimensions of health, education, housing, clean water and sanitation, and access to information to analyze the current situation of multidimensional poverty in Nghe An province. The results show that, in the period 2016 - 2019, the poverty rate in Nghe An decreased rapidly, but the intensity of poverty decreased slowly. The rate of deficiency of some indicators such as school attendance among children and assets for accessing information tends to increase. Households in remote areas and ethnic minority households have a high rate of lack of basic social services. The division is also evident in the highland and lowland districts, between the Northwest and the Southwest. From that situation, the study recommends several solutions to reduce poverty in the mountainous area of Nghe An