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‘Historic’: how Mexico’s welfare policies helped 13.4 million people out of poverty

Experts are enthusiastic about poverty reductions achieved under former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López ObradorToothless and frail, Gloria Palacios, 84, stooped as she set up her rickety sidewalk shop in Mexico City’s roughshod Doctores neighborhood. On sale: peanuts, cigarettes, chewing gum, chocolates and chips.When asked how much she made in a day, Palacios’s disabled son Gustavo, who helps run the tiny store, simply laughed. “If we make 100 pesos ($5) it’s a lot,” he said. Happily, said Palacios, the family has a different lifeline. Continue reading...

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