TY - RPRT AB - 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. AU - Gundersen, Craig AU - Yanez, Mara AU - Valdes, Constanza AU - Kuhn, Betsey A. DA - 2002 DA - 2002 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.33859 DO - doi ID - 33859 KW - Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety KW - Food Security and Poverty KW - Food assistance programs KW - social safety net KW - targeting methods KW - macroeconomy KW - poverty KW - Progresa KW - DICONSA KW - FIDELIST KW - LICONSA KW - DIF KW - Food Stamp Program KW - WIC KW - the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33859/files/fa020006.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33859/files/fa020006.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33859/files/fa020006.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33859/files/fa020006.pdf N2 - 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. PY - 2002 PY - 2002 T1 - A COMPARISON OF FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES TI - A COMPARISON OF FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33859/files/fa020006.pdf Y1 - 2002 T2 - Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 6 ER -