Perhaps part of where the western outlook on poverty goes wrong is that we almost exclusively define our economic metrics by material, quantifiable means.

However, people can be rich in relationships and materially poor, or incredibly wealthy and yet have a string of broken relationships. Look at divorce rates, or even simply people living together, then breaking up and finding new partners in the United States, where economically speaking people live in one of the richest countries in the world.

Does anyone know of economic metrics that attempt to measure and/or account for relational and/or community richness or poverty?