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Persistence of an exclusionary model: Inequality and segmentation in Mexican society
Author(s) -
BAYÓN María Cristina
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2009.00064.x
Subject(s) - poverty , inequality , social inequality , social protection , social exclusion , persistence (discontinuity) , development economics , economics , social change , social policy , economic inequality , economic growth , market economy , mathematical analysis , mathematics , geotechnical engineering , engineering
. Beginning in the 1980s, Mexico's social and labour policies took a neoliberal turn which exacerbated inequalities, poverty and social exclusion. The change of policy course that has occurred over the past decade has so far failed to bring about a critical review of the country's economic model and its social consequences. The role of the State has been systematically cut back; social services have been outsourced to the market; and informal family‐based social protection has gained ground. Mexico's social model has thus been reduced to a system that is almost exclusively concerned with protection for those living in extreme poverty.