The objective of a country's government is to increase the well-being of its population. For this reason, a precise measure of inequality and poverty contributes to better development of economic and public policies to reduce the former and latter, respectively. Therefore, in recent years, various indexes have been developed to measure and compare inequality and poverty. In the case of Mexico, the Gini and Theil indexes are used to measure both problems. However, they are criticized for the overvaluation that they generate on specific population segments. For a better measurement, this paper calculates and investigates the relationship between the Palma index (inequality) and the Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke index (poverty). In addition to reducing the overvaluation problem, the indexes mentioned allow us to perform an analysis by gender and employment type (salaried and self-employed). The main results do not diverge from those already found through traditional measures. In general, a high level of inequality exists. However, our paper contributes to the literature by identifying both problems by gender. Men present greater inequality than women, whereas women present greater poverty than men. Finally, a positive, albeit weak, correlation exists between both problems, which means that poverty can be combated by combating inequality.
La restricción o suspensión de actividades a causa de la pandemia por la COVID-19 ha afectado a los sectores de la economía de todo el mundo, y el sector alimentario no ha sido la excepción. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar las estrategias para la exportación que implementan las empresas exportadoras mexicanas de la industria alimentaria frente a la COVID-19. La información se recolectó por medio de una encuesta con la aplicación de un cuestionario. En la metodología, se identificó la población de productores agroexportadores mexicanos del directorio MexBest (s/f), se realizó la prueba Alfa de Cronbach para evaluar la fiabilidad del instrumento y se determinó el tamaño de muestra representativa de los productores agroexportadores del MexBest (s/f). Los resultados se presentan mediante estadística descriptiva. Se encontró que 85 % de los productores agroexportadores mexicanos se ubican en la planificación, en el desarrollo y/o en la implementación de estrategias para la exportación.
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