, TFPs have generally been effective in reducing poverty and indigence. In Brazil rural social assistance pensions cut the …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil … school, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico …