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As Mexico’s Poverty Rate Drops, Southern States Lag Behind
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As Mexico’s poverty rate drops, southern states lag behind
While President Claudia Sheinbaum lauded a report indicating a significant reduction in poverty since 2018, a breakdown of the figures demonstrates that southern Mexican states are lagging behind their northern brethren. Mexico’s national statistics agency INEGI this week released its first survey measuring multidimensional poverty and Sheinbaum noted that “more than 13 million people were lifted out of poverty” between 2018 and 2024. Poverty re…
In Mexico, poverty is measured in a multidimensional manner; this approach recognizes that poverty not only occurs when a person does not have enough money to afford the basic basket, but poverty can be reflected when a person fails to effectively access basic social rights.
The Economist Jorge Bravo El Inegi published for the first time the measurement of multidimensional poverty, a task previously performed by the extinct (by the 4T) National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval). The report reveals that poverty in Mexico decreased from 43.2% in 2016 to 29.6% in 2024, which is equivalent to 13.7 million people less in this condition. However, challenges such as the gaps between federati…
I Campesino / Falseties Poverty, oil and sovereignty, big lies of the 4T... Miguel A. Rocha Valencia Beyond the fact that just when the Inegi draws figures that previously analyzed the extinct Coneval on monetary poverty, the decline of it turned out to be “historical” in the four-party period, the numbers reveal the forceful fact that in other areas, the social deficiencies of Mexicans grew brutally.
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