Using six of the dimensions constructed by Gordon et al (2003), i.e. nutrition, water, sanitation, health, shelter, information, excluding education because it was less relevant for under-fives, Roche (2013) observed a reduction in both incidence and intensity of multidimensional child poverty between 2000 and 2007 in Bangladesh. Following Gordon et al (2003) and the Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities (UNICEF, 2007), MODA uses the international children's rights framework (United Nations, 1989,1995; United Nations General Assembly, 2000) to guide the choice of dimensions of deprivation and treats the child, rather than the household, as the unit of analysis. It recognizes that poverty and deprivation may affect children differently to adults.