Adjustment, Poverty and Employment in Mexico

Abstract

Part 1 Structural adjustment - an overview: structural adjustment - the end of a National Economic Project the World Bank structural adjustment packages government and control of economic process adjustment and poverty methodological issues of the relationship of adjustment and poverty. Part 2 Adjustment policies in Mexico background to the 1982 economic crisis the Mexican economic reform 1982-1994 the impact of adjustment policies on poverty. Part 3 Poverty and household living standards: problems of data sources used to measure poverty methods used in Mexico to measure poverty the measurement of poverty in Mexico trends in poverty in Mexico after the 1982 economic crisis improvement in some wellbeing indicators poverty and living conditions in Mexico City changes in household living conditions in Xalpa, Mexico City. Part 4 Labour force participation trends (1979-1994): employment data sources and employment definitions labour force participation rates I (employment surveys) women's work work by adolescents labour force participation rates II (income and expenditure surveys) interaction between income poverty and working effort. Part 5 Labour markets in Mexico City and Xalpa: employment by occupational categories in Mexico City Xalpa - household members participation in the labour markets. Part 6 Conclusions: criticisms of the Washington Consensus and the Mexican case stabilization, adjustment and poverty poverty and the labour market. Appendix - the methodology for measuring poverty the Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM) the Poverty Line (PL) Method based on a Normative Basket of Essential Satisfiers (NBES) adjusting household income to National Accounts (NA).