Use the following data to answer the next question:

## GDP Growth $\%(2017)$: Armenia$=7\mathrm{.}5$; Bulgaria$=3\mathrm{.}81$; Ecuador$=2\mathrm{.}37$; Estonia$=4\mathrm{.}86$;

Kiribati$=0\mathrm{.}33$ ; Malaysia $=5\mathrm{.}9$; Mauritania $=3\mathrm{.}03$; Solomon Islands $=3\mathrm{.}53$

## GNI at PPP $(2017)($Billions US$$)$: Armenia$=29\mathrm{.}5$; Bulgaria$=150\mathrm{.}2$; Ecuador$=188\mathrm{.}7$;

Estonia$=43\mathrm{.}2$; Kiribati$=0\mathrm{.}5$ ; Malaysia$=908\mathrm{.}2$ ; Mauritania$=17\mathrm{.}1$; Solomon Islands $=1\mathrm{.}4$

## GNI per capita at PPP $(2017)($US$$)$: Armenia$=10010$; Bulgaria$=21220$; Ecuador$=11240$;

Estonia $=32790$; Kiribati $=4370$; Malaysia$=29200$ ; Mauritania$=4000$; Solomon Islands$=$

$2170$

## GNI per capita at PPP $\%$ variation between $2010-2017$:

Armenia $=45\mathrm{.}3\%$; Bulgaria $=45\mathrm{.}1\%$; Ecuador $=25\mathrm{.}2\%$; Estonia $=60\mathrm{.}4\%$; Kiribati $=74\mathrm{.}1\%$;

Malaysia $=46\mathrm{.}4\%$; Mauritania $=21\mathrm{.}2\%$; Solomon Islands $=61\mathrm{.}9\%$

## UN's $2017$ HDI Index: Armenia$=0\mathrm{.}755$; Bulgaria$=0\mathrm{.}813$; Ecuador$=0\mathrm{.}752$; Estonia$=0\mathrm{.}871$;

Kiribati$=0\mathrm{.}612$ ; Malaysia $=0\mathrm{.}802$; Mauritania $=0\mathrm{.}52$; Solomon Islands $=0\mathrm{.}546$

## UN's $2017$ HDI Index $\%$ variation between $2010-2017$: Armenia$=2\mathrm{.}7\%$; Bulgaria$=3\mathrm{.}4\%$;

Ecuador$=3\mathrm{.}7\%$; Estonia $=2\mathrm{.}6\%$; Kiribati$=2\mathrm{.}2\%$; Malaysia$==3\mathrm{.}0\%$; Mauritania $=3\mathrm{.}4\%$; Solomon

Islands $=3\mathrm{.}9\%$

Assume you work for a company that sells financial advisory services in several foreign

countries. They hired you in $2019$ to select countries where people $($households$)$ had recently

made more money than in the past. The higher the improvement in household wealth in the

previous decade or so$,$ the better the country would be as a target. According to the data

provided, and assuming the listed variables is all the information you have, the chances of

your company selecting

were MUCH HIGHER than it selecting

Solomon Islands; Kiribati

Malaysia; Estonia

Mauritania; Armenia

Bulgaria; Ecuador