From Pronasol to Oportunidades: social policy and enduring poverty in México / De Pronasol a Oportunidades: política social y persistencia de la pobreza en México

• Main Author: Félix Acosta Díaz
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Asociacion Castellano-Manchega de Sociologia (ACMS) 2010-10-01
• Series: Barataria : Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales
• Subjects: Social deprivation; governance; public policy; public administration; social actors; general law of social development
• Online Access: https://revistabarataria.es/web/index.php/rb/article/view/162

After almost fifteen years of social policies, extreme poverty has become an enduring problem in Mexico. Even in those years when nation-wide economic conditions have been particularly good, an important segment of the Mexican population faces the problem of poverty and the lack of social opportunities and this segment grows heavily with economic turndowns. The purpose of this paper is twofold: on one hand, it compares the objectives against the efficacy of social policy aimed to alleviate and reduce poverty in Mexico in the period after the great 1982 economic and social crisis; on the other hand, it points out the expectations and the problems of a new social policy that may be more effective in overcoming poverty and social deprivation in modern Mexico.