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  -