One implication, thus, is that “poverty traps” exist for some groups who live in ultra poverty, while convergence works more effectively for those living in subjacent and medial poverty. This is particularly important since the experience of the People’s Republic of China — with nearly 70 per cent of the region’s population - would dominate the regional trends in East Asia and the Pacific. At the same time, trends in South Asia would be dominated by India. Unfortunately, we do not have country level information for most of the Asia Pacific LDCs.