Poverty Plus Pandemic Equal to Lethal Epidemics in Mexico

Development Of The Theme

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  - The trajectory of poverty and inequality in Mexico in the period 2015-2019

Poverty and inequality in Mexico date back to colonial times, however the development and economic growth of the country has been involved since the last century when government policies focus on addressing poverty.

López E, (2011), Ward mentions that, “neither the rapid economic growth, between 1940 and 1970, nor the increase in oil production (since the late 70s) modified income inequalities, although both factors generated changes in economic activity.”

It is from the decade of the 70's that the creation of relevant anti-poverty programs such as: Public Investment Program for Rural Development (PIDER), General Coordination of the National Plan of Depressed and Marginalized Areas (COPLAMAR), Mexican Food System (SAM), all of them with the purpose of creating proposals in support of society that was already divided into rural and urban, the poor amounted to approximately 8 million inhabitants.

These programs did not meet the objective, derived from the lack of a strategic plan for the administration of resources, coupled with the fact that in this decade the import substitution model was implemented, which housed social policy to economic policy. This structure caused shared development, in addition to economic depressions, devaluations and fall in oil prices, leading to the debt crisis and a severe economic recession, events that placed social policy in the background.

For the above, in the decade of the 80's, the National Solidarity Program (PRONASOL), again with the aim of supporting the most disadvantaged only that, in this decade is already counted not only the simple poor but already exist the poor in extreme poverty. The objectives of the program were: a) to channel the benefits directly to the population and b) to give the population the opportunity to make decisions on the benefits to be granted.