此外，尽管数据不足，但MENA贫困率早已是发展中国家中最低的，而一些阿拉伯之春席卷的国家 — — 主要是突尼斯 — — 的贫困率在继续下降。
Moreover, despite the paucity of data, poverty ratios, already among the lowest in the developing world, were falling in some of the countries swept up by the Arab Spring – most notably, in Tunisia.