Results On Public Policies Against Poverty In Mexico: 1990 - 2012

Results on public policies against poverty have not been successful to diminish it. In 1990, 21.4% of people in Mexico didn´t have enough money to eat, 29.7% of people didn´t have enough money to improve their capacities, and 53% of people didn´t have enough money to have better conditions of life. Twenty years later, in 2010, 18.8% of people didn´t have enough money to eat, 26.7% of people didn´t have enough money to improve their capacities, and 51.3% of people didn´t have enough money to have better conditions of life. Therefore, it is concluded that the public policies against poverty haven´t been able to attack the causes of it, that´s why it is necessary to review the design, conception an implementation of them.

This situation is the result of changes in the relationship between state and society and of course in the design of public policies against poverty.

In order to understand what happened with the public policies against poverty it is necessary to take into account the historical context in which they are designed and implemented. Nowadays, public policies do not fight against the process of pauperization, with changes in the economic model since the late seventies; all the countries have been involved in a competition to offer the best conditions to the investors, but not for population. Therefore, implementation of structural reforms has had a huge social cost. The challenge is abandon the assistance policies and design policies that give more alternatives to people to achieve better life conditions.