this means that the number of children experiencing simultaneous child and monetary poverty had dropped by more than million the question is whether the remaining million children form a hard core of multidimensional poverty including monetary poverty as a result of geographical isolation social exclusion or discrimination or whether their living standards could be improved fairly rapidly as has happened with the million children who have escaped simultaneous child and monetary poverty this category remained almost constant and the value was the same by around suggesting that the reduction in the number of poor by both methods stemmed in part from higher household income that had not necessarily improved objective living standards for children similarly the percentage of nonpoor children experiencing household monetary poverty increased from million to million