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Table 4 Measures of Poverty Before and After Netting Out Spending on Health Care, Malawi 2011

From: Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi

 

Gross of health

Net of health

Difference

Payments (1)

Payments (2)

Absolute

Relative

  

(3) = (2)-(1)

[(3)/(1)]*100

Poverty Head count

50.98%

51.91%

0.93%

1.82%

Poverty Gap

0.19

0.20

0.48

2.54%

Normalized Poverty gap

9.37

9.67

0.30

3.22%

  1. Source: Author based on NSO (2011) [24] data