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

) especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …