Economics: Programs Fail to Avert Poverty Rise

MEXICO - Report 29 Jul 2015 by Mauricio Gonzalez and Ernesto Cervera

Executive Summary Last week the National Council for the Evaluation of Public Policy (Coneval) released new poverty data for Mexico based on information contained in the National Statistics Office’s National Survey of Household Income and Spending for 2014 (ENIGH 2014), which we analyzed in last week’s issue of Weekly Trends: Mexico Politics. The percentage of those living in conditions of poverty increased in 2014 even as there was a marginal reduction in the population living in conditions of extreme poverty. From the perspective of social rights the report shows a reduction in the percen...

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