The poorest non-African countries were Nepal (with an MPI of 0.350),
Haiti (0.306), India (0.296), Bangladesh (0.291), Yemen (0.283), and Pakistan
(0.275). But these six countries have a combined population of about 1.6 billion
people. And 39% in India and 37% in Bangladesh live in a poor household
where at least one child or woman is undernourished.
The results showed that knowing income poverty is not enough if our concern
is with multidimensional poverty. For example, multidimensionally,
Bangladesh is substantially less poor and Pakistan substantially poorer than
would be predicted by these countries’ income poverty (this finding may be
related to some of the comparisons in the case study in Chapter 2). In Africa,
Ethiopia is far more multidimensionally poor and Tanzania much less so than
predicted by income poverty. Most Latin American countries studied rank
worse on multidimensional poverty than on income poverty, but Colombia’s
income and MPI poverty ranks are about the same.