Table 4. Results of the cointegration test of the (ARDL) model for poverty according to the boundary test.

Test statistic	Value	K
F-statistic	8.492282	4
Critical Value Bounds
Significance	Lower Bound	Upper Bound
10%	2.45	3.52
5%	2.86	4.01
2.50%	3.25	4.49
1%	3.74	5.06

Source: Prepared by the researchers based on the outputs of (Eviews10).