Crisis y pobreza extrema en México. ¿Provoca pobreza el modelo de desarrollo?

Abstract

After the programs of structural adjustment, Latin America has shown considerable drops in its poverty levels. Mexico represents an outstanding exception, which has led
many researchers to conclude that the rise of poverty is structurally linked to the working of the development model, based on manufacture exports. This paper questions
this statement and tends to show that the spreading of Mexican extreme poverty is more related to the 1995 crisis than to the operation of that model. The transmission mechanism was the effect on the population in moderate poverty conditions. In order to reinforce the argument, the paper detaches the model from the crisis, and claims that
it could have been prevented by adequately handling the economic politics, specially through the opportune modification of the currency rate.