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COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2017

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Despite a sustained acceleration on the income levels of the countries, some countries cannot

benefit from that acceleration. To understand the extent of this disparity, non-monetary

indicators of poverty are needed to be examined.

1.1.2.

Non-Monetary Poverty

Human Development Index

Observing the human development categories and the income levels of the countries together,

it is seen that for most of the cases the income level of a country is in parallel with its human

development category. Indeed, as seen in the Table 1, 90 percent of the countries that is in ‘very

high human development category’ have high income levels. On the other hand, 68 percent of

the countries that is in ‘low human development category’ have low income levels, while 32

percent of the countries in the same category have lower-middle income

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Table 1: Income Levels of the Different Categories of Human Development

Low

income

Lower-

middle

income

Upper-

middle

income

High

income

Total

Low human

development

# of countries

28

13

0

0

41

%

68%

32%

0%

0%

100.0%

Medium

human

development

# of countries

1

31

9

0

41

%

2%

76%

22%

0%

100.0%

High human

development

# of countries

0

8

38

9

55

%

0%

15%

69%

16%

100.0%

Very high

human

development

# of countries

0

0

5

46

51

%

0%

0%

10%

90%

100.0%

Source: Own calculations from

UNDP (2016)

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Multidimensional Poverty Index

Among the countries for which multidimensional poverty index is calculated; 1.96 percent is

high income, 28.43 percent is upper-middle, 41.18 percent is lower-middle and 28.43 percent is

low income countries

(Figure 3)

. The MPI value ranges from 0.001 (Ukraine) to 0.584 (Niger).

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See Annex 5 for the full list related to the HDI values of the countries

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