THE TEN POOREST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD RESIDE IN AFRICA-HOW TO CHANGE THE STATUS QUO

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world, followed by South Asia, according to a new measure developed by Oxford University, with support from the U.N.
The measure, called the Multidimensional Poverty Index, or MPI, will replace the Human Poverty Index in the United Nations' upcoming Human Development Report, due out this October.

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A household is counted as "multidimensionally poor" if it is deprived of over 30 percent of the ten indicators used by the MPI. Researchers have calculated the percentage of people in each country who are poor, and of the 25 poorest countries, 24 are located in Africa.

The countries below are, according to the MPI, the 10 poorest countries in the world:

Niger

Ethiopia

Mali

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Somalia

Central African Republic

Liberia

Guinea

Sierra Leone

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