Assessment of the different measures of poverty in Mexico: relevance, feasibility and limits

Ortega Díaz, Araceli

Ortega Díaz, Araceli (2014), Assessment of the different measures of poverty in Mexico: relevance, feasibility and limits. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/18394

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Document de travail / Working paper

Date

2014

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NOPOOR Working Paper

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Ortega Díaz, Araceli
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Abstract (EN)

Mexican government has made many efforts to fight poverty, this efforts could not be measure if it did not have accurate measures of poverty that reflect the changes in time of each type of poverty that social programs target. The current analysis presents the different measures of poverty that have been used in Mexico, their relevance and how they affect the perception of the impact of public policies. It is a document that use expertise accumulated for the past 30 years in Mexico.

Subjects / Keywords

Mexico; Poverty; Multidimensional Poverty; Marginalization

JEL

I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty