000033859 001__ 33859 000033859 005__ 20210803101539.0 000033859 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.22004/ag.econ.33859 000033859 037__ $$a1481-2016-121371 000033859 041__ $$aeng 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__ $$aKuhn, Betsey A. 000033859 8564_ $$9e74d6d19-aa98-4f12-bfaa-3d2255552917$$s186766$$uhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/33859/files/fa020006.pdf 000033859 887__ $$ahttp://purl.umn.edu/33859 000033859 909CO $$ooai:ageconsearch.umn.edu:33859$$pGLOBAL_SET 000033859 912__ $$nMade available in DSpace on 2007-03-07T16:18:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 fa020006.pdf: 186766 bytes, checksum: 5c7a30322cebc1f31cf439360b4cd6a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 000033859 980__ $$a1481 000033859 982__ $$gUnited States Department of Agriculture>Economic Research Service>Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Reports