Mexico - Income Generation and Social Protection for the Poor : Volume 2. Urban Poverty in Mexico

Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer a number of opportunities and specific challenges for the poor, low quality and high costs restrict real access to basic public services. Yet, the urban-rural distinctions need to be seen as a continuum, where depth and characteristics of poverty vary with settlement size. The objective of this report is to inform the design of urban poverty interventions. It is organized as follows. The first section - comprising three chapters - examines what we know about the urban poor, seeking to understand better the dimensions of urban poverty. Chapter 2 considers the relationship between urban poverty and macroeconomic trends, and examines the poor's coping mechanisms, as well as the principal public programs available to them. Chapter 3 relies on a recent survey conducted by Mexico, to look in more depth at life in Mexico's poor urban barrios (neighborhoods). Section two of the report discusses some of the key challenges facing the urban poor, namely how to integrate labor markets and access "good" jobs (chapter 4), while Chapter 5, looks into how to protect - themselves - against income shocks by accumulating assets or accessing financial services.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Other Poverty Study biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2005-08
Subjects:	ACCESS TO HEALTH, ACCESS TO SERVICES, AFFORDABILITY, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ANTI-POVERTY, ANTI-POVERTY INTERVENTIONS, BARRIOS, CENSUS DATA, CHILDCARE, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, CONSUMPTION POVERTY, COPING MECHANISMS, CRIME, DATA SOURCES, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT, ESCAPE POVERTY, ETHNIC GROUP, ETHNIC GROUPS, EXPENDITURES, EXTERNALITIES, EXTREME POVERTY, FINANCIAL SERVICES, GDP, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, HEADCOUNT INDEX, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH ISSUES, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH STATUS, HEALTH SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD HEAD, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSING CONDITIONS, HOUSING MARKETS, HUMAN CAPITAL, ILLNESS, INCIDENCE OF POVERTY, INCOME, INCOME GENERATION, INCOME LEVEL, INCOME POVERTY, INCOME QUINTILES, INDIGENOUS GROUPS, INEQUALITY, INFORMAL SECTOR, LABOR MARKET, LABOR MARKETS, LAND MARKETS, LAND PRICES, LARGE CITIES, LITERACY, LIVING CONDITIONS, LOW INCOME, LOW INCOME HOUSING, MINIMUM WAGE, PACIFIC REGION, POOR, POOR CHILDREN, POOR HOUSEHOLD, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POOR INDIVIDUALS, POOR LIVING, POOR NEIGHBORHOODS, POOR PEOPLE, POOR RURAL CHILDREN, POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION SIZE, POVERTY ASSESSMENT, POVERTY ESTIMATES, POVERTY HEADCOUNT, POVERTY INCIDENCE, POVERTY INCREASE, POVERTY LEVELS, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY POVERTY, POVERTY PROGRAMS, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY STATUS, POVERTY TRENDS, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PUBLIC SERVICES, RUNNING WATER, RURAL, RURAL AREAS, RURAL COMMUNITIES, RURAL COUNTERPARTS, RURAL LABORERS, RURAL PEOPLE, RURAL POOR, RURAL POOR HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL POPULATION, RURAL POVERTY, RURAL POVERTY RATES, SAFETY NET, SANITATION, SERVICE PROVIDERS, SEVERANCE PAYMENTS, SEWERAGE, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL GROUPS, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL SAFETY NETS, SOLID WASTE, SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, TEAM MEMBERS, TOWNS, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, URBAN, URBAN AFFAIRS, URBAN AGRICULTURE, URBAN AREA, URBAN AREAS, URBAN CENTERS, URBAN DWELLERS, URBAN HOUSEHOLDS, URBAN MUNICIPALITIES, URBAN POOR, URBAN POOR HOUSEHOLDS, URBAN POPULATION, URBAN POVERTY, URBAN SETTLEMENTS, URBANIZATION, UTILITIES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/08/6343439/mexico-income-generation-social-protection-poor-urban-poverty-mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8305
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