Análisis del desarrollo económico y la desigualdad social en las metrópolis de México

Abstract

With the political and economic change towards neoliberal forms of organization in the world have spread new ways in which governments manage the land and its resources. What was initially promoted as being more competitive for economic and social development, along the years translates into forms of organization that have strengthened the economic power groups, but have generated adverse effects for the population, to have less access to quality jobs, to basic public services and worst payment for its jobs. In urban areas the effects translate into socio-spatial polarization exacerbated contrasting areas urban and environmental of high quality, with other precarious absent satisfactions for the minimum quality of life. In this paper we analyze several census variables such as population, employment, income and socioeconomic sector growth to measure the conditions of life in the metropolitan areas of Mexico in the period 1989-2009, considering this period as the promotion and implementation of policy neoliberal in the country. The intent is to determine whether the proposed changes are actually catalysts for economic and social development in the urban population, or if instead the effects of neoliberal policies have resulted adversed to urban population.