Halving poverty in Mexico
We estimate the required time and the minimum necessary growth rate to halve poverty incidence and poverty intensity in Mexico¿s rural and urban areas for a series of counterfactual distribution and growth scenarios. Results show that, given the current income distribution, per capita incomes in the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Universidad de Guanajuato |
| Repositorio: | Redalyc-UG |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:redalyc.org:32312003004 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32312003004 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Economía y Finanzas Mexico poverty goals Economic growth poverty measurement millennium development goals |
| Sumario: | We estimate the required time and the minimum necessary growth rate to halve poverty incidence and poverty intensity in Mexico¿s rural and urban areas for a series of counterfactual distribution and growth scenarios. Results show that, given the current income distribution, per capita incomes in the rural area would have to grow faster -in some cases eight times faster- than they have done historically to shrink poverty by half by 2015. In contrast, income in the urban sector would have to grow around 1 per cent per year to reach the same goal, which seems a more reasonable outcome given its behavior in past years. |
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