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Poverty Reduction in Mexico: What It Tells Us (and Alerts) About the Labour Market · Global Voices
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Luisa Mayor, leader of Morena, highlighted the reduction of poverty in Mexico as an achievement of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).The recent report of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) ‘Multidimensional poverty’ presented that, based on figures of 2024, poverty in Mexico decreased by 17.7% between 2022 and last year.This means that in 2022 there were 46.8 million people in poverty condition, but in 2…
Poverty had a historical decline, largely due to the strengthening of income from work. However, social deficiencies were still visible, access to health services grew. In both cases, there was a connection with the labour market.
“If the minimum wage had not been raised from 2018 to 2024, 10 million less people would have been taken out of poverty,” he explained. Isaac Rosales Shipyard Report The poverty reduction recorded by Inegi during the six-year period of AMLO was pushed by the increase in labor income, said academic and political activist Maximo Jaramillo. “The main driver of the increase in income in the poorest households is in labor income.” Now, “they receive…
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