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HLTC24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cathy Crowe, Natural Disaster, Housing First

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Canada"s financial status in 2001 was really good. Federal transfer payments to the provinces and territories have been falling since 1980. The transfer payments fund health care, education and. Mulroney started the cuts on welfare in 1990, chretien welfare. continued them. Provinces dealt with decreased funding by cutting support for poor ppl because they don"t vote as much as wealthier ppl, and when they do, they don"t vote for the two major parties. The amount of money families on welfare get is not enough to pay for even a one bedroom apartment, even tho they need more bedrooms than that. Mass homelessness emerged in canada as a result of all these cuts in funding. Low-income households suffered the burden of fighting the country"s deficit the burden was not equally shared. Compared to other countries, canada is not doing anything to ensure good living conditions for its population.

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Mexico has two main government programs that transfer income to rural households. They are:

PROCAMPO, which pays a set amount per acre to farmers who grew basic grains in a base year prior to the elimination of guaranteed prices. Output price guarantees are not allowed under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.The idea here was to replace the price support with a direct income payment to farmers, to compensate them for lower grain prices. Direct income payments are allowed, because unlike price supports, they are not expected to affect production (in ag policy jargon, they are“decoupled.”) Most PROCAMPO payments go to corn farmers, big and small.

OPORTUNIDADES, a conditional welfare program that gives payments to poor women provided that their children are enrolled in schools and in the local clinic. The idea is to combat poverty in the short run (by giving money to women, the responsible ones!) and in the long run (by making sure kids get the human capital they need to be productive and make an income when they get older). This has become a model for welfare programs in less-developed countries—and even in New York City!

a) How would you expect each one of these public transfer programs to affect (i) inequality and(ii) poverty in rural Mexico? Why?