the extreme poverty threshold for the target measured as income per person below the international poverty line is too low for the countries of the region so it is considered more appropriate to use the extreme poverty line based on the cost of a basic food basket target is to reduce at least by half the proportion of men women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions by although this target includes a multidimensional definition of poverty which goes beyond shortfalls in income it clearly defines a quantitative outcome and a time horizon that can be used to assess the prospects for reducing total monetary poverty and not just extreme poverty since the target does not specify from which point poverty should be halved the analysis takes as its base year which is when the goals were adopted worldwide for reference purposes of the countries analysed in this section the incidence of extreme poverty was below in of them in according to figures from the world bank see poverty lonlinel