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3 However, as indicated by Bravo (2004), From the gender perspective, a definition of poverty that uses household income as a unit of measurement is widely questioned, both because it presupposes the homogeneous distribution of resources among members of the household and because it does not include housework as a basic resource of the household.

This might seem surprising, because most countries south of the Río Bravo (known to North Americans as the Rio Grande) moved from right wing dictatorship to democracy in the 1980 s and 1990 s. Some of these democracies were initially imperfect, to be sure, but optimists hoped that it was only a matter of time until all elections would be fair and restrictions on civil liberties fully lifted.