Examines changes in economic and social conditions in Mexico from the 1950s to the 1990s focusing on conditions among the urban poor. Explores the effects of these changes on national class structure and, in particular, the emergence of an underclass.

Transcending the Mexican context, this book fuses the importance of statistical data with the lived realities of impoverished people everywhere.

This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution. These essays presented, covering a span of over 30 years of research and scholarship, have been at the forefront of distributional analysis, and many of them are of prime importance for contemporary developments in the real-valued measurement of poverty and inequality, with particular reference to the concepts of fuzzy poverty assessment, vulnerability, heterogeneity/multidimensionality, unit consistency, sub-group decomposability, and dominance criteria. While all of these articles have been previously published—singly or with co-authorship—in a number of professional journals or distinguished edited volumes, this book is greatly enriched by a substantial introductions by the authors, which place the contributions in context, highlights their inter-connectedness, and relates them to the work of Tony Atkinson and other scholars. This book is of intrinsic value to welfare analysts, as well as being a tribute to a very great scholar by a fellow economist.

Since the creation of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in 1984, research and technological development recognizes the work of researchers adhering to the SNI, by granting an economic stimulus, gradual and correlated to the level of importance of their productivity and scientific creation, whose purpose is to promote the development of science and technology in Mexico. The Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), defines the policy line of action in the field of scientific and technological research, in accordance with the priorities that the National Development Plan and the Special Program of Science, Technology and Innovation 2014-2018 define as national priority research areas.Currently, one of the main problems facing Mexico is the poverty they present in large sectors of the population, both in rural and urban areas. The condition of poverty makes the population suffering from it suffer economic marginalization and social exclusion, whose objective expression corresponds, among others, to the lack of opportunities for access to employment, health, education and food deprivation, these being conditions that lacerate society and that constitutes a priority: the fight against poverty and social exclusion. This invites us to ask: How to approach the fight against poverty and social exclusion, from the perspective of social research in support of the elaboration of a public policy that social development in Mexico?This document analyzes the coverage, quality and relevance of the research on poverty and social exclusion, which they carry out in the SNI-Conacyt. In a first step to answer, is to identify from two sources of analysis: 1) Identify those who do social research aimed at the study of poverty and 2) Identify the number of institutions responsible for training human resources whose research is relevant to the study of poverty, and finally, 3) Identify the degree of generational change among researchers of the SNI-Conacyt whose research is poverty.

Explores various forms of social exclusion in Latin America, including residential segregation in Bolivian cities, exclusion in health care in Brazil, barriers to legal status of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica, geographic isolation in El Salvador, and educational inequality among the indigenous in Mexico.

In Mexico, the Productive Organization Program for Indigenous Women (POPMI) seeks the empowerment of productive capacities in indigenous women. Our study analyzes POPMI outreach, focusing our attention on women beneficiaries who present a high degree of social exclusion and multidimensional poverty in the State of Veracruz. In the study area, the 542 indigenous women benefited in POPMI, presented a condition of multidimensional poverty and a degree of social exclusion: very high, high and medium, they represent only 22.19% of the total beneficiaries of this program In 2010, since at the state level a total of 2,243 indigenous women were cared for. The results show that the localities where the condition of multidimensional poverty and very high, medium and high levels of social exclusion have been excluded in the coverage of POPMI.