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Social and economic policies. Analysis and evaluation
Discipline Economy
Academic Group Consolidated
Year of registration: 2003
Members
Knowledge Generation and Application Lines
1.- Social Economy.
2.- Industrialization, innovation, productivity and competitiveness.
3.- Income distribution, poverty and social policy in Mexico.
Description
1.- The design and operation of economic policy and its social effects. Specifically, research is carried out on the policies designed by the governments of the countries of the world to try to solve the social problems that most affect their citizens: unemployment and underemployment, poverty, health and social security systems, quality of educational systems. Although current economic and social policy is oriented towards the treatment of traditional problems, its orientation and methodology has undergone important transformations as a result of the intellectual products of the evolution of ...
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1.- The design and operation of economic policy and its social effects. Specifically, research is carried out on the policies designed by the governments of the countries of the world to try to solve the social problems that most affect their citizens: unemployment and underemployment, poverty, health and social security systems, quality of educational systems. Although current economic and social policy is oriented towards the treatment of traditional problems, its orientation and methodology has undergone important transformations as a result of the intellectual products of the evolution of scientific thought. This line of research analyzes these changes in the evolution of the treatment of the most relevant current social problems. The evolution experienced in recent decades in the disciplines and approaches of social policy is of such a dimension that it requires an analytical and systematic treatment for its full treatment. Case studies include the Mexican economy and comparative analysis of economic and social policies in Mexico, Latin America and the rest of the world. The design and operation of economic policy and its social effects are studied. Specifically, it investigates the policies designed by the governments of the countries of the world to try to solve the social problems that most affect their citizens: unemployment and underemployment, poverty, health and social security systems, quality of educational systems. Although current economic and social policy is oriented towards the treatment of traditional problems, its orientation and methodology has undergone important transformations as a result of the intellectual products of the evolution of scientific thought. This line of research analyzes these changes in the evolution of the treatment of the most relevant current social problems. The evolution experienced in recent decades in the disciplines and approaches of social policy is of such a dimension that it requires an analytical and systematic treatment for its full treatment. Case studies include the Mexican economy and comparative analyses of economic and social policies in Mexico, Latin America and the rest of the world.
2.- The current approaches to industrial economics and organization, the operation and dynamics of industrial structures under conditions of imperfect competition, oligopoly and monopoly. Likewise, the consequences of such structures on social welfare are analyzed. Specifically, the way in which these market structures provide the environments for innovations to be promoted or delayed. More specifically, it analyzes how, in their interaction, industrial structures and organizations can promote or retard innovation and thereby generate or impede productivity growth in economies and thus create a platform for competitiveness or for lagging behind in the context of the global economy. The methodologies developed are mainly applied to the case of Mexico and Latin American economies. The sectoral case studies include the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries.
3.- Simple (Pareto approach, functional distribution) and complex (individual labor income cycle model) approaches to income distribution are studied. The generation of inequality indexes is studied as well as their application to specific economies, generally Latin American economies. The complexity of poverty is approached from different points: the different conceptual approaches, the main forms of measurement, and the policies to reduce it. The main conceptual approaches studied since its genesis are those of human capital, deprivation and capabilities. Different poverty measurements are studied and applied, but particularly those officially adopted by the Mexican government. These include the measurements of poverty lines: food, patrimony and capabilities. A consequence of the topics addressed is the study of the application and consequences of policies to reduce poverty: employment activities (training for and on the job), income transfers (e.g., Oportunidades Program), coverage of social security programs.
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