Mexico: Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor
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Mexican children leave school with the worst literacy, maths and science skills, with around half failing to meet the most basic standards.
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The poorest children in Vietnam outperform the most privileged in Mexico. Rivera spent six months studying evenings for an online diploma to improve her digital teaching skills. But around two thirds of the tablets no longer work, and the repair budget has been cut. Some parents simply sold them. In total, a million devices were handed out in six states before the scheme ended; its impact has not been measured. Another eye-catching policy, announced earlier this year, is to have English-speaking teachers in every school within a decade, and for all children to be bilingual in Spanish and English within 20 years.
One in four indigenous year-olds cannot read or write — four times the general illiteracy rate. Poverty within indigenous communities is rising. Instead, it does the opposite. The children with the most needs get the worst services, like tele-secondary schools [a distance learning model where a reduced number of teachers rely on video and audio materials to teach the curriculum]. School dropout rates, absences and grade repetition are all much worse within its poorer communities. Yet greater income inequality within individual neighbourhoods may actually be a good thing for poorer locals.
Figure 2 shows that they experience life expectancy gains , perhaps due to positive health modelling and increased aspirations among poor adult residents. For policy makers, then, our findings create an intergenerational trade-off. Lessons learned from such a policy debate in the US could have important international consequences.
Such places have substantial heterogeneity in income across neighbourhoods and relatively little heterogeneity within neighbourhoods.
As a result, they have lower access and opportunities for education, employment and services. This is a relevant area for future study. It would be interesting, for example, to plot cities across the Americas on the same graph, examining regional trends in longevity and mobility based on neighbourhood-level inequality. Being Well Together — Manchester, Manchester.
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Skid Row in Los Angeles, a city where rich and poor live in very close proximity — for better and for worse. The cities of the Americas are unequal places. A low-income area of Mexico City.
"Professor Ramón Eduardo Ruiz has dedicated his career to unlocking the historical reasons for the rebelliousness of Mexican society and its failures to achieve. Mexico Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor Based on Ruiz's decades of research and travel in Mexico, this penetrating work helps us better understand.
Gentrification has occurred in many North American cities, increasing local income inequality and, in some cases, tensions. We produce knowledge-based, ethical journalism. In direct contrast to many other lower income areas, I sensed little appetite to criticize the government, or the upper class. The lower-income citizens I talked to were resigned, perhaps too busy, perhaps too removed, to contemplate income inequality.
Or perhaps it was something else entirely. Maybe they were wary of opening up to a foreigner, especially one with an American accent.
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Perhaps they were too scared to criticize, even fearful. Maybe Mexicans in lower-income areas have simply adapted to the trauma of the drug violence, the corruption, the grinding banality of poverty, and learned to suppress their true emotions. Maybe the unwillingness to engage with a temporary visitor, a non-Spanish speaker, a white American, was purely a tactical question of time and understanding. I left Neza feeling like I knew less about the people, the community, than I did in almost any other city. No one offered me their email address, or their phone number.
No one invited me back the next time I visited. A special thanks goes out to the support structure I had in Mexico City, a very intimidating place to travel, speak, and drive. I could not have done this project without the support of the Thomson Reuters Foundation specifically Anna Yukhananov , my driver Octavio, and of course my incredibly generous friends Alejandra and Daniela Esponda. A special thanks goes to Oscar Ruiz, a helicopter pilot who also happens to be a photographer specializing in photos of inequality. He created an incredible series that you can find here: He is also a very generous guy and spent part of his valuable time talking to me one day about his work.
The size and scale of the housing arrangements in Mexico City is just as fascinating as the wealth inequality between the two sides. A gated housing estate in the Ixtapalapa neighborhood sits next to a classic concrete low-income area. From above, the city grid of Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl Neza looks like an endless series of Christian crosses. Mexicans have a deep and almost mystical relationship with the Catholic church.
Extreme wealth inequality in Mexico City's Santa Fe neighborhood. The lower-income citizens I talked to were resigned, perhaps too busy, perhaps too removed, to contemplate income inequality. Join Oxfam India on social media: Public anger with inequality is already creating political shockwaves across the globe. Hanson; Ann Harrison January