Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … measures of poverty show that parents are highly compensated by the scale economies due to joint consumption …

The importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of well-being in the measurement of poverty has been … emphasized in the recent literature. The poverty alleviation literature has not, however, yet addressed the important issue of … policy design for efficient multidimensional poverty reduction. From a normative perspective, it can be argued that, in …