Guest Column - When some people living in the Global North hear of the poverty level of less than $2 per day by the United Nations and extreme poverty line of $2.15 per day as defined by the World Bank, they wonder how people survive on such amounts. This is understandable if one views poverty through the lens of the Global North. However, this is far-removed from reality. The one-size-fits-all approach to measuring poverty fails to account for contextual variations in the cost of living (including housing,