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000033859 245__ $$aA COMPARISON OF FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES
000033859 260__ $$c2002
000033859 269__ $$a2002
000033859 270__ $$mcggunder@ers.usda.gov$$pGundersen,   Craig
000033859 270__ $$mcvaldes@ers.usda.gov$$pValdes,   Constanza
000033859 270__ $$mbkuhn@ers.usda.gov$$pKuhn,   Betsey
000033859 300__ $$a29
000033859 336__ $$aReport
000033859 490__ $$aFood Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 6
000033859 520__ $$aThe social safety nets in Mexico and the United States rely heavily on food assistance programs to ensure food security and access to safe and nutritious foods. To achieve these general goals, both countries' programs are exclusively paid for out of internal funds and both target low-income households and/or individuals. Despite those similarities, economic, cultural, and demographic differences between the countries lead to differences in their abilities to ensure food security and access to safe and nutritious foods. Mexico uses geographic and household targeting to distribute benefits while the United States uses only household targeting. U.S. food assistance programs tend to be countercyclical (as the economy expands, food assistance expenditures decline and vice-versa). Mexican food assistance programs appear to be neither counter- nor procyclical. Food assistance programs have little effect on the extent of poverty in Mexico, while the opposite is true in the United States, primarily because the level of benefits as a percentage of income is much lower in Mexico and a much higher percentage of eligible households receive benefits from food assistance programs in the United States.
000033859 546__ $$aEnglish
000033859 650__ $$aFood Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
000033859 650__ $$aFood Security and Poverty
000033859 6531_ $$aFood assistance programs
000033859 6531_ $$asocial safety net
000033859 6531_ $$atargeting methods
000033859 6531_ $$amacroeconomy
000033859 6531_ $$apoverty
000033859 6531_ $$aProgresa
000033859 6531_ $$aDICONSA
000033859 6531_ $$aFIDELIST
000033859 6531_ $$aLICONSA
000033859 6531_ $$aDIF
000033859 6531_ $$aFood Stamp Program
000033859 6531_ $$aWIC
000033859 6531_ $$athe National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
000033859 700__ $$aGundersen, Craig
000033859 700__ $$aYanez, Mara
000033859 700__ $$aValdes, Constanza
000033859 700__ $$aKuhn, Betsey A.
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