POVERTY, SOCIAL DEPRIVATION, AND MUNICIPAL PUBLIC RESOURCES IN MEXICO
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This research evaluates the efficiency of municipal public spending and resources in alleviating vulnerability due to social deprivation and, secondarily, income poverty. The geographic scope is Mexico, and the period is 2015-2020. Two data envelopment analysis methods were used to assess efficiency: A slacks-based measure (Tone, 2001), and a measure that simultaneously considers desirable and undesirable outputs (Färe and Grosskopf, 2004). Both methods generate similar results, configuring a scenario of inefficiency in most municipalities, and a tendency toward geographical proximity of efficient municipalities. The construction of a multilayer perceptron identified that the number of medical offices, as well as the number of teachers and high school and higher education schools, were the most relevant variables for addressing vulnerability and poverty. Therefore, areas of opportunity were identified to facilitate more efficient use of public resources at the local level.
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