* Acción Ciudadana Frente a la Pobreza, a Mexican NGO, has warned that poverty will not only continue under the current government led by President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but will get worse. A new study by the NGO accuses the government of failing to take effective action in response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, highlighting that fiscal responses were “
minimal”, and criticising the government for failing to assign more resources to health; to implement measures to protect jobs; or to introduce any form of basic income. It also cites an estimate from Mexico’s national council for the evaluation of social development policies (Coneval), a government body, that an extra 15.8m people could enter poverty due to loss of income. In particular, the study highlights the precariousness of the labour market as a cause of this rise in poverty, noting the high levels of informality, with 62% of the labour market (equivalent to 34.2m people) working in the informal sector.
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