Political and social context of not attaining the Millennium Development Goal to reduce poverty
Marco Palma-Solís, Diana Gil-González, Carlos Álvarez-Dardet, María Teresa Ruiz-Cantero
Volume 86, Number 10, October 2008, 772-779
Table 2. Relationship between the political and social context variables with the achievement of Target 1 of the Millennium Development Goals, 2002
| Variables | Achieved |
Not achieved |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | IQR | Value | IQR | Value | IQR | |||
| Countries | 17 | – | 71 | – | 88 | – | ||
| Population below poverty line (%) | 15.5 | 6.9 | 41.8 | 19.5 | 37.1 | 22.9 | ||
| Urban population (%) | 60.1 | 17.3 | 38.2 | 32.2 | 45.1 | 29.1 | ||
| Gini indexa | 38.4 | 6.6 | 44.9 | 14.8 | 43.2 | 13.5 | ||
| Freedom indexb | 4.23 | 3.18 | 4.00 | 2.17 | 4.02 | 2.31 | ||
| Government consumption (per capita)c | 307.6 | 319.4 | 98.1 | 216.1 | 109.6 | 255.6 | ||
| Domestic consumption (per capita)c | 1 253.7 | 1 128.0 | 524.6 | 733.5 | 651.9 | 913.0 | ||
| Gross formation of capital (per capita)c | 541.6 | 493.6 | 150.6 | 314.5 | 218.4 | 391.1 | ||
| Sum of balance of imports–exports (per capita)c | –256.7 | 3 363.8 | –619.1 | 1 149.8 | –578.5 | 1 310.8 | ||
IQR, interquartile range (Q3–Q1).a Values between 0 and 100 (0 = no inequalities; 100 = maximum inequality).b Values between 1 and 7 (1 = maximum freedom; 7 = minimum freedom).c Constant dollars at 1990.