US EditionAvalan in Commissions Transfer Functions From Coneval to Inegi
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In the country that lives 46.8 million people in poverty and has multiple social development programmes that promise to combat it, there will no longer be the institution specialized in measuring poverty. On Wednesday night, the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved the extinction of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval). Its powers will be acquired by the National Institute of Statistics a…
Cd. of Mexico.- The Committee on Budget and Public Account of the Chamber of Deputies approved the opinion of the reform that reallocates the functions of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Policy (Coneval) to the INEGI. With 34 votes in favour and 12 against, the legislators endorsed the opinion that the INEGI is the institution that carries out the measurement of poverty and the integral evaluation of social development policy, …
Reading time approx.: 1 minutes, 54 secondsOn the other hand, President Claudia Sheinbaum defended this Wednesday that the INEGI will assume the task of measuring poverty in Mexico, a function that the now extinct National Evaluation Council (Coneval) has performed, and said that this transition will not only continue the multidimensional assessment of the situation of Mexicans, but also opens the possibility of perfecting the methodology used.
The dissolution of the Coneval ends with an institutional counterweight, eliminating an autonomous body with specific powers to issue critical and independent evaluations of social policy, says the PAN MP, Héctor Saúl Téllez. “The Coneval suffered the same strategy of destruction,... Complete note »
Inegi Will Evaluate Poverty with Technical Rigor, Said the President After Extinction of the Coneval
After the extinction of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval), President Claudia Sheinbaum supported the transfer of her functions to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), and assured that the evaluation of poverty will continue to be carried out with technical rigour. Likewise, she highlighted the advances in social welfare achieved during [...] Inegi office will evaluate poverty wi…
“There are still many millions of Mexicans in labor poverty, but we’re going the right way,” the president said.
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