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Problem # 3: "Poverty Indicators" (12 points)

Please go to

https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/document/gender-poverty-and-environmental-indicators-on-african-countries-2009-16442/ (Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries 2009)and A). Define the Human Poverty Index (HPI). How does it measure poverty?b). Fill in the following table using Central African countries data:

Problem # 3: “Poverty Indicators” 

Please go to

https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/document/gender-poverty-and-environmental-indicators-on-african-countries-2009-16442/ (Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries 2009) 

and

a). Define the Human Poverty Index (HPI). How does it measure poverty? 

b). Fill in the following table using Central African countries data:

 

Country

GNI per Capita ($)

(2007)

HPI Value (%)

(2006)

HDI Rank Among 179 Countries

(2006)

HDI Value (Scale 0 to 1)

(2006)

 

 

 

 

 

Cameroon

 

 

 

 

Central African Republic

 

 

 

 

Chad

 

 

 

 

Congo

 

 

 

 

Democratic Republic of Congo

 

 

 

 

Equatorial Guinea

 

 

 

 

Gabon

 

 

 

 
 

c). How does your “African Country’s” HPI compare with that of other Central African countries?

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