Economic crisis, poverty and social policy in Mexico

Abstract

The article discusses of that poverty in Mexico is essentially structural and depends on economic, demographic, cultural, social and political factors, showing how the current economic model and social policies derived from it, have promoted a complex situation of helplessness, poverty and increasing social vulnerability. The article concludes that in Mexico, the social policy suffers from large obstacles in the care for the population and the neoliberal economic model has promoted a complex situation of defencelessness and increasing social vulnerability, where the priority task of social policies must be to productively integrate into the workforce, with a double challenge: absorb the cumulative lags and incorporate the new working population. It also concludes that the economic structure and the future population distribution are fundamental aspects for the orientation of policies and actions that should be made in the short and medium term; It is necessary to promote demographic criteria, avoid duplication of programmes and promote better coordination between the orders of Government and between the various sectors that have an impact on national development.