Poverty in Yemen & Mexico

Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. … This poverty definition encompasses living conditions, an inability to meet basic needs because food, clean drinking water, proper sanitation, education, health care and other social services are inaccessible.

Yemen

Longitud: 48.0000000
Latitud: 15.0000000

Poverty in Yemen holds one of the highest rates in the Arab world. Half of the population lives on less than two dollars per day. … Most of the population does not have access to clean water and proper sanitation.

Mexico

Longitud: O 102°0’0″
Latitud: N 23°0’0″

While less than 2% of Mexico’s population lives below the international poverty line set by the World Bank, as of 2013, Mexico’s government estimates that 33% of Mexico’s population lives in moderate poverty and 9% lives in extreme poverty, which leads to 42% of Mexico’s total population living below the national poverty line.

About poverty

Reducing poverty has become an international concern, yet there is no international consensus on guidelines for measuring poverty.

In pure economic terms, income poverty is when a family’s income fails to meet a federally established threshold that differs across countries. Typically it is measured with respect to families and not the individual, and is adjusted for the number of persons in a family. Economists often seek to identify the families whose economic position (defined as command over resources) falls below some minimally acceptance level.¹ Similarly, the international standard of extreme poverty is set to the possession of less than 1$ a day.

Frequently, poverty is defined in either relative or absolute terms. Absolute poverty measures poverty in relation to the amount of money necessary to meet basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. The concept of absolute poverty is not concerned with broader quality of life issues or with the overall level of inequality in society. The concept therefore fails to recognise that individuals have important social and cultural needs. This, and similar criticisms, led to the development of the concept of relative poverty. Relative poverty defines poverty in relation to the economic status of other members of the society: people are poor if they fall below prevailing standards of living in a given societal context. An important criticism of both concepts is that they are largely concerned with income and consumption.