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INTRODUCTION
II. BODY
POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
A. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
Ghana's progress has outperformed expectations—at least after a string
of setbacks. Côte D'Ivoire (CIV) began with several obvious advantages, but
Ghana outperformed CIV on many economic indices. Ghana has bridged the
development gap that existed between itself and CIV at the time of
independence.

Figure 1. Human Development Index

Source: United Nations Development Program

As the figure 1. The Human Development Index (HDI) was devised to

support as a criterion for how well the nation has accomplished, not just in terms
of monetary earnings growth, as well as in relation to social factors of people's
way to maintain a long healthy life, gain knowledge and skills, and also have
access to the resources required to obtain a good standard of living.
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INDEX
YEAR GHANA COTE D’IVOIRE
1990 0.360 0.393
2009 0.526 0.484
2010 0.467 0.397
Table 1. The Human Development Index of Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire since 1990
to 2010. Source: United Nations Development Index
The table above displays the stated number of human development in
Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire. When the Human Development Index was first
launched in 1990, Cote d'Ivoire was significantly greater than Ghana. As can be
 seen in 2009, both nations made improvement. Ghana is classified as a medium
human development country, while Cote d'Ivoire is classified as a low human
development country. The Cote d'Ivoire is ranked 149th, and Ghana is ranked
130th, according to the updated HDI, which was announced in 2010.

B. MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX

According to the 2013 Human Development Report, the Multidimensional
Poverty Index (MPI) is relatively high at 0.353, while Ghana's MPI is far smaller
at 0.144. CIV's MPI rank, on the other hand, is much lower at 78 with a value of
0.320—more than double Ghana's level—and far poorer than expected by the
model.
The income poverty rating of CIV. CIV is around midway in between finest
and the worst performers (Nigeria at 0.642), while Ghana's score is less than a
third of a mile from no poverty to Niger's poverty line.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL
POVERTY MEASURE
COUNTRY RANK RATE
GHANA 57 0.140
COTE D’IVOIRE 78 0.320
Table 2. The Multidimensional Poverty Measure of Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire.
Source: Human Development Report

As the Table 2 presented it showed that Ghana ranked 57th with the rate
of o.140 while the Cote D’Ivoire ranked 78 th with the rate of 0.320.The human
poverty, as defined by the UNDP, is even worse in Cote D’Ivoire than income
poverty may indicate. Ghana's Human Poverty Index is at 0.281 was much
higher (with its ranking as predicted by its income poverty).

C. GDP
Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire are two African countries with significantly
diverse historical, cultural, and economic foundations. There has been much
debate over the roles of geography, illness, institutions, policies, and other
variables in affecting results across nations. One of the difficulties that every
cross-country comparison has is that Africa is the region where all of these
factors have been deemed damaging to nations' economic chances. Ghana and
Côte d'Ivoire are two African countries with highly divergent political, economic,
and social growth patterns. Ghana is a multi-party democratic nation, while Cote
d'Ivoire is a yet another state, and the Ghanaian economy is a member of the
CFA regional monetary union.
 Figure 2: GDP per Capita
Source: Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: Changing Places

Figure 2 depicts the progression of GDP per person in both nations

across several years. The PENN World Tables statistics are designed to
guarantee that GDP estimates are comparable between nations by using
purchasing power parity (PPP) values. Within context of Ghana, the data are
affected by disruptions caused by the use of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
pricing in the 1970s, when Ghana's currencies was severely overvalued. It
should be highlighted that the distortions caused by adopting PPP pricing during
a time in the 1970s when the Ghanaian currency was substantially overvalued
have been accentuated, notably in the instance of Ghana.

D. POVERTY LEVEL
Furthermore, as per the 2009 Human Development Report Human
Poverty Index (see note 11), Cote D'Ivoire placed 29th in the country rankings
based on human poverty rather than income poverty a daily percentage of less
than $1.25 This showed that CIV's "human poverty," as defined by the UNDP, is
worse even than overall income poverty may show. Ghana's HPI, at 0.281, was
much higher with its anticipated ranking based on economic poverty.

HUMAN HUMAN GROSS POVERTY

DEVELOPMENT POVERTY DOMESTIC LEVEL -
INDEX - 2009 INDEX - 2009 PRODUCT - 2010
2007
GHANA 0.526 0.281 1653 36%
COTE 0.484 0.374 2228 16%
D’IVOIRE
Table 3: Comparison of Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire
Source: Witra Gafara 2016

Table 3 represents the comparison of Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire. In terms

of Human Development Index of 2009 the Ghana is much higher than the CIV, in
Human Poverty Index CIV is larger than Ghana, the Gross of Domestic Product
of 2007, Ghana is lower than CIV and lastly, the Poverty Level of 2010 36% was
Ghana and 16% was CIV.
III. CONCLUSION
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