Poverty in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico during 1992-2002

This paper analyzes poverty in rural and semi-urban areas of Mexico (localities with less than 2,500 and 15,000 inhabitants, respectively) and provides guidance on a social agenda and poverty alleviation strategy for rural Mexico. The analyses are based on INIGH and ENE data sets for 1992-2002. Monetary extreme poverty affected 42 percent of the rural dwellers in dispersed rural areas and 21 percent in semi-urban areas in 2002, slightly less than one decade earlier. Most of the rural poor live in dispersed rural areas and 13.2 million people live in poverty in rural Mexico with less than 15,000 inhabitants. It is disproportionately a feature of households whose main job is in the agricultural sector, as self-employed farmers or rural laborers, and that have at most a primary education. However, the incidence of extreme rural poverty has declined since 1996 but at a slower pace than the decline in urban poverty. Hence, the rural-urban poverty gap increased in recent years and in some places extreme poverty is at least four times higher in rural than in urban areas. Moreover, not only is the income gap in urban areas increasing, but also the gap between richer and poorer segments of the population in the rural areas is growing. Finally, the gap between rich and poor regions is still large.

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Main Author:	Verner, Dorte
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2005-04
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT, AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, AVERAGE AGE, AVERAGE INCOME, AVERAGE INCOMES, BASIC EDUCATION, CAPITA INCOMES, DEMOGRAPHICS, DEPENDENCY RATIO, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC INSTABILITY, ECONOMIC SECTORS, ECONOMIC SITUATION, EDUCATED PEOPLE, EDUCATION LEVEL, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EXPENDITURES, EXTREME POVERTY, FARM INCOME, FARMS, FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS, FINANCIAL MARKETS, GINI COEFFICIENT, GROWTH PATTERN, GROWTH RATE, GROWTH RATES, HEADCOUNT POVERTY, HOUSEHOLD DURABLES, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN CAPITAL, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME GROWTH, INCOME INEQUALITY, INCOME POVERTY, INDIGENOUS GROUPS, INEQUALITY REDUCTION, INFORMAL SECTOR, INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION, INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, INTEREST RATES, LABOR FORCE, LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, LABOR MARKET, LABOR MARKETS, LAND PRODUCTIVITY, LEGISLATION, LONG RUN, LOW INCOME, NATIONAL AVERAGE, NATIONAL POVERTY, OLD AGE, PER-CAPITA INCOME, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESPONSE, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POOR PEOPLE, POOR POPULATION, POPULATION GROUPS, POPULATION GROWTH, POPULATION SHARE, POPULATION SIZE, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POVERTY ANALYSIS, POVERTY CHANGES, POVERTY GAP, POVERTY HEADCOUNT, POVERTY INCREASE, POVERTY INDICATORS, POVERTY LEVEL, POVERTY LEVELS, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY MEASURE, POVERTY PROFILE, POVERTY PROFILES, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, POVERTY WORK, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCTIVITY, PUBLIC GOODS, PUBLIC SECTOR, PUBLIC SERVICES, RAPID GROWTH, REAL WAGES, REDUCING POVERTY, RURAL AREAS, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL PEOPLE, RURAL POOR, RURAL POPULATION, RURAL POVERTY, SAFETY NETS, SAVINGS, SCHOOL GRADUATES, SHARECROPPING, SIGNIFICANT EFFECT, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL SERVICES, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, TERTIARY EDUCATION, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, TRANSFER PROGRAMS, URBAN AREA, URBAN AREAS, URBAN POPULATION, URBAN POVERTY, VULNERABLE GROUPS, YOUNG PEOPLE,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/04/5775174/poverty-rural-semi-urban-mexico-during-1992-2002 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/8985
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