As everyone mentioned the basis of being poor is different.
In my country ( that is a poor country with corrupted government ) since you can get food for eat you are not a poor person. they don't consider other needs for basis of being a poor and with this cheap way of thinking,more than %70 of our population is rich since they can eat food everyday!
as long as most of the people can meet their daily basic requirement, you are not consider poor. no matter how long you work, what you work, where you work. That's what they though. sad things is many thing that they decided not to care about, the country is poorly manage, people is discontent.