La Zona Contextual Background
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- Created on: 31-03-15 13:27
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- La Zona contextual background
- Social Stratification in Mexico persists to the present day.
- Mexican revolution of 1910 - Mexican government redistributed 50% of the land held by the landed gentry.
- land ownership continues to form the basis for wealth in Mexico
- (because of the economy's industrial transformation, industrialists and politicians are also likely to number among the wealthy)
- only 10% of Mexicans are wealthy
- 30% are middle class
- 60% are poor (including peasants and industrial workers
- country's income is unevenly distributed
- wealthy 10% own 38% of country's income
- middle 30% own 36% of country's income
- land ownership continues to form the basis for wealth in Mexico
- Mexican revolution of 1910 - Mexican government redistributed 50% of the land held by the landed gentry.
- housing situation in Mexico provides a dramatic illustration of the disparity between rich and poor
- housing shortage
- in Netzahual-coyotl on the Eastern outskirts of Mexico city, 1,000,000 lower-class Mexicans live in single-bedroom brick structures erected on land that floods when it rains
- they have few public services
- in Netzahual-coyotl on the Eastern outskirts of Mexico city, 1,000,000 lower-class Mexicans live in single-bedroom brick structures erected on land that floods when it rains
- elite Western suburbs of Mexico City allow the wealthy to live with all of the amenities of modern life.
- housing situation seems to be worsening
- housing shortage
- Persistent poverty has been one of the abiding problems of the Mexican economy
- The economy has few safety nets
- no unemployment compensation
- poor do not receive welfare payments
- education is the ticket to upward social mobility in Mexico,
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- The economy has few safety nets
- Social Stratification in Mexico persists to the present day.
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