Mexico: Experiences with Pro-Poor Expenditure Policies

ByAna Corbacho, Gerd Schwartz

January 1, 2002

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Summary

Against the background of Mexico's persistently high degree of inequality, this paper analyzes the country's experience with pro-poor policies over the last decade. A number of important government initiatives, implemented since the mid-1990s, have aimed at improving distributional equity through pro-poor expenditure programs, while at the same time seeking to increase the efficiency of public spending. This paper reviews these initiatives and outlines some additional policy options.

Subject: Education, Education spending, Expenditure, Income, Income distribution, Income inequality, National accounts

Keywords: average earnings, Caribbean, education expenditure, Education spending, Gini coefficient, Global, Government Expenditure, government expenditure program, government policy, government program, household income, Income, income decile, Income Distribution, Income inequality, inequality in Mexico, Mexico, per capita income, population group, private sector, WP

Pages:
55
Volume:
2002
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451842913.001
Issue:
012
Series:
Working Paper No. 2002/012
Stock No:
WPIEA0122002
ISBN:
9781451842913
ISSN:
1018-5941

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