Tijuana, BC- The increase in poverty and inflation will be factors so that in this year 2023 a people find it difficult to access educational, medical and social services, said Alfredo Valadez García, a researcher at Cetys University’s Center for Economic Research in the Northwest.
This is because according to the deficiencies established by Coneval, the population with an income below the extreme poverty line went from 4.0% to 5.2% in the years 2018-2020. While in that same period the educational gap was from 15.9% to 16.1%; access to health services from 16.9% to 24%; and access to social security went from 36.7% to 38.9%.
Valadez García said that by 2023 world inflation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine will still be felt.
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He commented that although the salary increase was approved and there is government support, it will help families to improve their situation, since since they try to buy the basic basket It is difficult for them because of the high prices.
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“Although it is true that the minimum wage increased 20%, there is a high percentage of the population that earns little. Another thing that makes us think that this increase will not be the solution to the problem is that there are many people working in the informal sector in Mexico. At the national level, the informality rate exceeds 55% of people who do not contribute to the Insurance, who are not registered with the Treasury and others, “he explained.
The researcher explained that poverty and social deprivation also limit access to a better job, which depend on the educational level that the person has reached, at the same time it conditions obtaining medical and
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Poverty is interesting, those who study it and who have even won Nobel prizes use an interesting concept that they call the poverty trap. when you are in a low-income condition, that is, poor, you drop out because you have to work, but then since you could not raise your educational levels, the job or position that you can earn for that educational level is low-paid, then ‘ we reproduce poor people’, he maintained.
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The expert estimated that this situation also affects young people who have recently graduated from universities not get a job but they are also more vulnerable to being fired because they do not represent a generation of job seniority.
For this reason, he advised to avoid getting into debt in 2023, since the banks fight inflation raising interest rates on products or services.
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