%0 Journal Article
%T Halving Poverty in Mexico
%A Ch¨¢vez-Mart¨ªn del Campo
%A Juan Carlos
%A G¨®mez
%A Manuel
%J Econom¨ªa mexicana. Nueva ¨¦poca
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X we estimate the required time and the minimum necessary growth rate to halve poverty incidence and poverty intensity in mexico's rural and urban areas for a series of counterfactual distribution and growth scenarios. results show that, given the current income distribution, per capita incomes in the rural area would have to grow faster -in some cases eight times faster- than they have done historically to shrink poverty by half by 2015. in contrast, income in the urban sector would have to grow around 1 per cent per year to reach the same goal, which seems a more reasonable outcome given its behavior in past years.
%K economic growth
%K millennium development goals
%K poverty goals
%K poverty measurement
%K mexico.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-20452009000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en