Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and Increase Formality Among the Moderately Poor: The Mexican Agenda

Eduardo Sojo and Roberto Villarreal

No RP2005-17, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Public policy aimed at building capacity among the extremely poor (support for food and nutrition; health; education and, more recently, financial services), combined with a stable macroeconomic environment, has proved to be successful for poverty alleviation in Mexico. Even though overall poverty is still very pronounced, about four million people originally in extreme or intermediate poverty registered real income gains during 2000-02 and entered moderate poverty, concentrated mostly in urban areas, where it exceeds extreme and intermediate poverty.

Keywords: Informal sector; Labour law; Labour productivity; Poverty; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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