In this episode, Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director of GDI, and Dr Mercedes González de la Rocha, an anthropologist and sociologist at CIESAS and an alumna of the University of Manchester, discuss inequalities, clustered disadvantages, urban social isolation, why Dr González de la Rocha loves Immanuel Wallerstein’s definition of income. They also discuss Dr González de la Rocha’s research on poverty and vulnerability in Mexico, including the ten-year research project she led to evaluate the impact of Mexico’s conditional cash transfer programme Oportunidades (now called Prospera).
For more on Dr González de la Rocha:
- The resources of poverty: Women and survival in a Mexican city
- From the resources of poverty to the poverty of resources? The erosion of a survival model
- Private adjustments: Household responses to the erosion of work
For more on urban poverty research at GDI:
Further reading:
- Durable inequality by Charles Tilly
- Mothers at the service of the new poverty agenda: Progresa/Oportunidades, Mexico’s conditional transfer programme by Maxine Molyneux
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