@article{Gundersen:33859,
      recid = {33859},
      author = {Gundersen, Craig and Yanez, Mara and Valdes, Constanza and  Kuhn, Betsey A.},
      title = {A COMPARISON OF FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN MEXICO AND THE  UNITED STATES},
      address = {2002},
      number = {1481-2016-121371},
      series = {Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 6},
      pages = {29},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {The social safety nets in Mexico and the United States  rely heavily on food assistance programs to ensure food  security and access to safe and nutritious foods. To  achieve these general goals, both countries' programs are  exclusively paid for out of internal funds and both target  low-income households and/or individuals. Despite those  similarities, economic, cultural, and demographic  differences between the countries lead to differences in  their abilities to ensure food security and access to safe  and nutritious foods. Mexico uses geographic and household  targeting to distribute benefits while the United States  uses only household targeting. U.S. food assistance  programs tend to be countercyclical (as the economy  expands, food assistance expenditures decline and  vice-versa). Mexican food assistance programs appear to be  neither counter- nor procyclical. Food assistance programs  have little effect on the extent of poverty in Mexico,  while the opposite is true in the United States, primarily  because the level of benefits as a percentage of income is  much lower in Mexico and a much higher percentage of  eligible households receive benefits from food assistance  programs in the United States.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33859},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.33859},
}