Abstract

BOLTVINIK, Julio  and  DAMIAN, Araceli. Derechos humanos y medición oficial de la pobreza en México. Pap. poblac [online]. 2003, vol.9, n.35, pp.101-136. ISSN 2448-7147.

Poverty is the crudest expression of violation of social and economic human rights. In this article we establishe which of the social and economic human rights are explicitly or implicitly recognized by the Mexican legislation and by the current government throughout the official poverty measurement method. The first section describes economic and social human rights as recognized by the Mexican legislation (for the whole population or for particular social groups, e.g. wage earners), and the degree of enforcement of these rights. After that, we identify the economic and social human rights which are implicitly recognized (and these which are not) by choosing different poverty measurement methods (IBN, PL and its variant called Normative Food Basket, which is the most used in Latin America and recently adopted by the Mexican government). We criticize the underlying assumptions used to calculate the official poverty line and the method proposed by the Poverty Measurement Technical Committee (appointed by the Mexican government in 2002 to do so).

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