Política social y combate a la pobreza en México: Análisis de la Cartilla Social.

Abstract

In this article we use unpublished and geo-referenced data at the municipality level on the beneficiaries of the main programs of the Ministry of Social Development who received the Social Book in 2016. The objective is to know national aspects of social policy and its relationship with poverty. In general, it is observed that social policy covers 65-69 per cent of the people in poverty, granting a transfer of 822 pesos per beneficiary family, who has access to 1.15 programs on average. Through a simple linear regression it is possible to observe that families living in the places with greater poverty receive a monetary transfer similar to families that live in places with less poverty. In contrast, the places with greater poverty have a greater coverage of beneficiaries in relation to the number of poor people than places with less poverty; which is driven by Prospera.