Inequality In Mexico

The fact that Mexico is a highly unequal country is a well-known fact at least since Alexander Von Humboldt’s definition of the region then known as New Spain. Von Humboldt indeed, a botanical geographer that travelled in Latin America at the beginning of the nineteenth century, defines the region as “the country of inequality”. Unfortunately, this is still true in the twenty-first century. Inequality in Mexico is more pronounced compared to Latin America’s average. In fact, it ranks 4th in the world

idea of social stratification which is explained as “arranged in social strata or classes within groups” meaning the population of Mexico is divided into classes, the upper class, middle class, and lower class. People in Mexico are viewed in these classes you have the wealthy which are the upper class such as for example Carlos Slim Helu who is the richest person in Mexico, and you have the middle class whose income is acceptable in providing for themselves and or family they are not viewed as someone

Gender inequality is the unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It arises from differences in socially constructed gender roles. Throughout the world there are men and women who seek change in society’s gender infrastructure, they seek equality and justice for both genders. In some developing nations like the countries in the Middle East, China, and India, women are still perceived as the inferior gender; they’re forced to be obedient to the opposite sex, their basic

This graph shows the unemployment rate of Mexico between women and men in between 1991 and 2016. The ratios are not different too much between each other. However, it is clear that the unemployment rate of women is higher. Actually, this is not surprise because the looking at the LFPR graph, the LFPR of men is higher than women. Although the rate of women is higher, the unemployment rate of men exceed the women’s with little percentage in 2010. The trend goes like that just two or three years and

Take Mexico for example, this Latin American country have lived in complete insecurity as described by (Becker, Anne and Markus, 2013) in their case study The securitization of urban space and the ‘rescue’ of downtown Mexico City: Vision and practice. Latin American Perspectives 189 (2): 77-94. This country experiences inequality reinforced by build environment when the urban community of downtown Mexico was disturbed by the increasing cases of social violence and crime related to drug trafficking

Mexico City has been notoriously held the title of being one of the most populated cities in the world. To put it another way in 1970 the population of the city was 8.7 million where as now it has exceeded 20 million. Furthermore the history of Mexico is quite unusual by being ruled by the Aztec from 1325 - 1521 who made the country quiet prosperous by making their capital Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) and building large pyramid like temples with causeways. The Aztec had a population of

population in Mexico, twenty million are considered to live in extreme poverty. (DePalma, nytimes.com) In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, (which takes place in Baja California, Mexico) the main character and his wife live in very poor conditions; however, just a few miles away from their village, lives a rich town. This presents a major gap in the quality of life between these classes. The answers to the questions discussed in this paper (i.e., “To what extent is this financial gap in Mexico?” “Why does

These three financial crises are some of the most popular financial problems to affect Mexico and Asia. One of the common characteristics that become evident in all the three cases is with regards to exchange rates. In all the three crisis, pegged exchange rates relied against the dollar but the governments were unable to keep the values of these currencies parallel with the dollar. In the events leading up to the 1982 crisis, the exchange rate of the peso was overvalued. The resulting inflation

maximizing the women’s economic potential and narrowing the inequality gap could add $18 billion in 2025 or more than 10 percent to annual gross state product (GSP) growth in the State of New Mexico over the next ten years. This involves putting more women to work in the formal sector of the economy to achieve a greater gender equality. Realizing the $18 billion addition to GSP requires achieving the potential of gender equality in New Mexico. New jobs will be created to offset the gender disparity

an important issue since the first years as an independent nation. Porfirio Diaz had a major role in changing the nation’s vision and direction as well as the huge inequality among classes. When it comes to centralized power, distribution of power and the different ideas of ruling the country did not only lead to modernization of Mexico but also the led to the Mexican revolution. Religion and politics played important roles in Mexican history, which had the led a carbon print in the way that Mexicans