Sierra Leone Tops World Poverty By Minkailu Turay Two weeks after topping both Transparency International (TI) and the United Nations lists of most corrupt and the country with the highest child mortality rate respectively, Sierra Leone has again been embarrassed with another unenviable ranking. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) ranked Sierra Leone the poorest country in the world. MPI replaces the Human Development Index (HDI) which had rated Sierra Leone over the past months as one of the fastest growing economies in West Africa. The recent survey carried out by MP1 says that Ethiopia has been the fastest growing economy not just in Africa but the world over. According to the MP1 report, education, water supply, electricity, roads and health delivery are very bad in Sierra Leone couple with the low salaries which have all contributed to the country’s worse position thereby countering all the other Human Index Report that had been out. The situation in the country today grows worse by the day and it is felt all over Sierra Leone with bad roads, inaccessible health facility, and poor education as sheer evidence. The MP1 complements a traditional focus on income to reflect the deprivations that a poor person faces all at once with respect to education, health and living standards. It assess poverty at the individual level, with poor person being those who are multiply deprived, and the extent of their poverty being measured by the range of their deprivation. The following are the last 10 poorest countries in the world and as usual all of them are from Africa: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mali Burkina Faso, Burundi, Somalia, Central Africa, Republic of Liberia, Guinea and the poorest of all is Sierra Leone.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:37:45 +0000
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