Where are your references that this, or some similar methodology, isn&#x27;t how the World Bank arrived at its figures? Don&#x27;t you think they would have thought pretty seriously about what an objective measure for &quot;extremely poor&quot; is? Perhaps $1.90&#x2F;day is a statistically valid proxy when thinking globally based on their methodology, perhaps it isn&#x27;t ~ I don&#x27;t know and I&#x27;m none the wiser from your comment. And where&#x27;s your evidence that the numbers were &quot;fudged&quot;?