Poverty and Human Development As reported in the UNDP’s 2009 Human Development Report, Ghana is considered a medium human development country, with an HDI of 0.526, while Côte d’Ivoire is considered a low human development
country with an HDI of 0.484. In the 1990 report, when the HDI was introduced, the numbers were 0.393 for CIV and 0.360 for Ghana. Both made progress, but Ghana much more so. On the new HDI introduced in the 2010 report CIV ranks
149th (at 0.397), while Ghana ranks 130th (at 0.467). And the 2009 HDR Human Poverty Index (see note 11) for Côte d’Ivoire was 0.374, ranking 29 places lower in the country rankings based on human poverty than income poverty (the fraction under $1.25 per day). This suggested that what the UNDP termed human poverty is relatively worse in CIV than even its income poverty would