1. Poverty in Mexico Aisha Al-Darwish 9B Mr. Swords Humanities

2. Poverty Headcount in Mexico

3. Location of Mexico Its in Middle America. It borders the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It is between Belize and the United States and bordering the North Pacific Ocean

5. Poverty in Mexico Half the population in Mexico lives in poverty, mostly half of them also live in extreme poverty. Poverty means living on less than $1.25 a day. They mostly eat the food that goes in the garbage. Sometimes they don’t eat anything at all in a whole day.

6. Environmental and Social impacts In Mexico, they also are unable to talk or communicate with people around different cities or different places. The government can’t help them because also the government sometimes lacks ways of communication or causes that they can’t help the poor. The cause is bad and corrupt leadership in the government.

7. The poverty rate measured through consumption increases from 25% to 33.5%, and the extreme poverty rate from 10.58% to 16%, given the increase in food prices.

8. The housing in Mexico is also very shocking. Half of the Mexicans don’t have houses. They live on the ground near trees, were there is shade. Some of the rich people share houses with the poor. They at least give them beds or give them a room for the whole family to stay.

10. Political and Economic impacts A Mexican poo8r person said that, "Our money just doesn't go far enough,” In a year, near 6,300 people died from poverty in Mexico. They obviously don’t go to school. Only 72% of them go to school and are educated, this shows how poor they are.

11. Solutions Education because if women are educated they will take care of their children better in food and health. If children are educated they have a chance of a better life or at least learn a skill that they can use to work with. More help for farmers, especially small farmers, so they will not leave the land and come to cities to look for work. Birth control because if people have smaller families they will not be so poor.

12. Bibliography Images: http://search.creativecommons.org/ Information: Www.eslbe.com. Web. 06 Feb. 2010. <http://www.eslbe.com/causes_of_poverty_in_mexico.htm>. "Globalization and Poverty in Mexico." The National Bureau of Economic Research. Web. 06 Feb. 2010. <http://www.nber.org/digest/apr05/w11027.html>. Social impacts

13. "The effects of rising food prices on poverty in Mexico." - Munich RePEc Personal Archive. Web. 06 Feb. 2010. <http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10221/>. Environmental impacts "The impact of credit on income poverty in urban Mexico. An endogeneity-corrected estimation." - Munich RePEc Personal Archive. Web. 06 Feb. 2010. <http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2367/>.