Hmm... seems like if you move a large number of people out of &quot;extreme poverty&quot; which was originally defined by the UN, and set at $1.90 a day by the World Bank, they&#x27;re still going to end up under the &quot;poverty line&quot; of $5.00 a day as defined by your article.<p>So I&#x27;m not sure how this constitutes a &quot;trick&quot;. You&#x27;d have to move those people directly out of extreme poverty  over the $5.00 a day in your article in order to drop the number of people in poverty.<p>It&#x27;s still frankly an improvement to move such a large number of people up the poverty scale. I&#x27;m sure i&#x27;d rather be living on $4 a day rather than $2.