You&#x27;re asking me to prove a negative in response to me asking for establishment of positive standards. Sure, the WB probably has some well thought out criteria - and I don&#x27;t know where to find them, and have reason to believe most everyone else pontificating on the subject aren&#x27;t sharing those criteria. I&#x27;ve not seen evidence ANYONE has worked out basic human needs to the point that anyone being given such satisfying resources can, and is, declared &quot;not poor&quot;.<p>Of course you&#x27;re none the wiser from my comment. It was a question (admittedly not bluntly phrased as such): what objectively constitutes &quot;poor&quot;?<p>Many in this thread decry the fudging of numbers in the discussion; I&#x27;d like something objective which can&#x27;t really be fudged.<p>ETA: following another posters&#x27; suggested link, seems the WB admittedly arrived at that $1.90&#x2F;day number by averaging the declared poverty lines of low-GDP&#x2F;capita countries. That&#x27;s not the quantitative objective analysis I&#x27;m looking for.