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State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013reflecting a dramaticThere are onlyreduction in life expectancyFACT five cities with(to 1970s levels). Similarvery weak prosperitydeclines are also observed infactors (CPI below 0.500)in UN-Habitat’s worldwidethe Democratic Republic ofsample – Bamako,Congo, Lesotho, SwazilandAntananarivo, Monrovia, or Zambia.Niamey and Conakry. TheirIt is important tocommon feature is that they note that inequalityhave recently experiencedfurther weakens the CPIvarious types of conflictwith various degrees ofvalues for Lagos, Harareintensity. In each of them, and Lusaka. When theproduction, quality of life equity index is includedand infrastructure indicators in the CPI, all three citiesare very low.move from ‘weak’ to ‘veryweak’ prosperity factors(below 0.500).Cities with very weak prosperity factors (CPIbelow 0.500): Cities in this bracket feature contrastedpatterns among the sub-indices in the CPI. For some,the dispersion of index values across the ‘spokes’ reflectsinstitutional and structural problems. For others, the fivedimensions of prosperity do converge, only at very lowvalues, a hallmark of dysfunctional systems, institutionalfailures, sluggish economic growth as well as widespreadpoverty and destitution.1.00.90.80.70.60.50.40.30.20.10Figure 1.1.7Cities with very weak prosperity factorsCPI Index (with five dimensions) Productivity IndexCPI Index (with four dimensions) Quality of Life IndexInfrastructure Development Index Equity IndexEnvironmental Sustainability IndexMonroviaConakryAntananarivoBamakoNiameyBox 1.1.5Visualizing the 5 dimensions of the CPIProductivity indexProductivity indexEquity indexQuality of life indexEquity indexQuality of life index1.00.50ViennaMexico CityJohannesburg1.00.50ViennaCairoNairobiEnvironmental indexInfrastructure indexEnvironmental indexInfrastructure indexThe two pentagons represent the five ‘spokes’ of prosperityas measured in five cities and the extent to which they areimbalanced /balanced in relation to each other. The radar-shapedgraphs suggest where policy interventions are required. Forinstance, Nairobi (to the right) performs well in terms of theenvironment and infrastructure, but less so on equity, productivityand quality of life. In Cairo, the situation is the reverse, as theenvironment appears to be the weaker point in an otherwisewell-balanced pattern of prosperity – although at an overalllower level compared with Vienna. Similar interpretations can bederived from the pentagon to the left, which compares the relativeperformances of revealing the prosperity patterns for the Mexicoand Johannesburg, again against Vienna’s.24