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"...or a xenophobic definition of "poverty" that only counts people living in your own much-richer-than-global-average country." In which case you are no longe
by mbostleman 11y ago
"...or a xenophobic definition of "poverty" that only counts people living in your own much-richer-than-global-average country."
In which case you are no longer measuring poverty. You are measuring inequality.
- collyw 11y agoAgan it probably depends how you define poverty. If you live somewhere where the land provides enough food for your needs every day, you probably don't need $2 per day. If you define poverty as never knowing if you will have enough for the next meal then the $2 cutoff is again probably fairly irrelevant.