The measurement of poverty is essential to understand the situation of society; Using an arbitrary threshold trivializes the discussion about the magnitude of poverty and makes an adequate diagnosis of the social situation impossible. Hence, the main methodological contribution of this work is, precisely, to break down the various multidimensional methods of measuring this phenomenon (OPHI-UNDP, CONEVAL and MMIP) from a critical perspective and a thorough analysis. Its purpose, therefore, is to contribute to the search for elements that allow poverty thresholds to be defined in a non-arbitrary way, and in this way to identify and analyze the social norms of minimum satisfaction to determine the levels below which a person It is considered poor in a given society, because when we talk about poverty, and we all do, its meaning is taken for granted; We refer to the poor on a daily basis,...read more