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 intra-household 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, i.e. a household for which per-adult equivalent consumption expenditure is less than the poverty line or the per adult equivalent daily calorie consumption is below 2450 kcal (for Burkina Faso a caloric poverty line of 2283 kcal is used as the food component in the monetary poverty line is based on this minimum caloric requirement, INSD 2009).