(27.3.) `To the extent that one‘s goal is to identify and target today‘s poor, then a relative poverty line is appropriate, and needs to be tailored to the overall level of development of the country. For instance, a $1 per day poverty line might be useful in Vietnam, where 27% of the population would be considered poor by this standard in 1998, but would be of little relevance in the United States where almost nobody would be poor by this standard.´

Das schreibt die Weltbank, die in Sachen Armutsbekämpfung die deutsche Sozialdemokratie links zu überholen scheint.