moreover progress between and was worse for ldcs than for developing countries as a whole with out of importers seeing their pll for ldcs decline during this period among the ten importers the share of their total pll accounted for by ldcs was less than onetwentieth at only cents of every dollar to the poor via trade going towards those within ldcs australia was the lowest at cents per dollar to the poor via trade and the european union the highest at cents the first is a measure of the share of national income going towards those within these poverty groups below the and per day level which are denoted as sip and sip share of income to the poor these are calculated based on the surveys and income distribution data used previously the second dataset provides the share of importvalue these countries account for in developed economies with the eu as a single block using the imf s direction of trade database