I like to improve the form what we measuring the poverty, because how we do it is not a good measure. In the last thirty years, the poverty was change, but not the way how we measuring. Gabriel Salazar talks about this.
Years ago, poor people don’t have any material thing. they don’t have food, don’t have shoes, don’t have house, etc. But today, the people have a choice that they don’t have before: They can debt. So, poor people don’t seem like the people of those days. Who is the poor today? The poor is the “flayte”. He a have brand t-shirt, brand jacket, brand shoes, a modern and technologic cell, etc. But, they still lives in bad situation. They don’t have good education; don’t have steady job or don’t have it and work to pay his debts. In present times, the consume is in the center of our life, so we spend our money in many things, especially in technologic thing. That can explain the looting after the earthquake. If the people have modern and technologic material thing, they feel better, because this things have symbolic power. There is a new way of poverty.
In conclusion, we need create a new measure to measuring the poverty. If we do it, is too probable than the figures and average of poor people in our society grow up.
