Extreme poverty in indigenous women in Mexico. Case study for Quintana Roo Maya Zone

Abstract

This investigation has analyzed the poverty in the indigenous population from the Mayan Zone in Quintana Roo State in Mexico. In the work field, it was compiled information about the regular incomes in homes from the places in study to separate men afterwards and center the analysis in the feminine population. With the contrast method to quantify the extreme poverty the proposed methodologies (extreme poverty line) by the World Bank and the Evaluation National Council of the Social Development Policy (minimum wellbeing and wellbeing lines) were used. The results show in graphics where the poverty lines for the World Bank as the Evaluation National Council of the Social Development Policy to contrast them with the Regular Income of each woman in the sample.