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- Title
Halving poverty in Mexico.
- Authors
del Campo, Juan Carlos Chávez-Martín; Gómez, Manuel
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
MEXICO; POVERTY; SOCIAL problems; POVERTY rate; CYCLE of poverty; INCOME inequality; POOR people
- Publication
Economia Mexicana, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0185-0458
- Publication type
Article