however given our preoccupation with the impacts of the global recession on children we include detailed information on all individuals in the micro model to analyze poverty and inequality effects at the individual level we do not attempt to model intrahousehold allocation decisions and instead simply assume that consumption is shared equitably proportionally to caloric needs among members of each household as a consequence adults and children are considered to be monetary or caloric poor if they belong to a monetary or caloric poor household ie a household for which peradult equivalent consumption expenditure is less than the poverty line or the per adult equivalent daily calorie consumption is below kcal for burkina faso a caloric poverty line of kcal is used as the food component in the monetary poverty line is based on this minimum caloric requirement insd