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

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

2005

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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.

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Poor; Team members; Solid waste management; Childcare; Health issues; Gdp; Labor markets; Poverty headcount; Low income housing; Rural counterparts; Health status; Expenditures; Poor individuals; Rural; Primary school; Service providers; Data sources; Urban dwellers; Land prices; Poor rural households; Urban settlements; Incidence of poverty; Housing markets; Poor household; Income quintiles; Income poverty; Urban poor households; Health survey; Urban municipalities; Poverty incidence; Poor children; Poor neighborhoods; Headcount index; Large cities; Economic management; Urban area; Census data; Population size; Affordable housing; Coping mechanisms; Rural poverty rates; Escape poverty; Labor market; Poverty assessment; Rural people; Poverty increase; Externalities; Safety net; Inequality; Household head; Urban households; Utilities; Poor people; Minimum wage; Rural laborers; Solid waste; Poverty estimates; Rural poor households; Barrios; Household size; Urban; Poverty levels; Illness; Low income; Poverty poverty; Household survey; Poverty rates; Income level; Housing conditions; Poor rural children; Unemployment rates; Urban affairs; Poverty trends; Access to services; Anti-poverty interventions; Gender discrimination; Financial services; Severance payments; Urban centers; Access to health; Anti-poverty; Ethnic group; Running water; Poverty status; Poverty programs; Indigenous groups; Consumption poverty; Poor living; Poverty lines; Poor households

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