State Development Plans in Mexico and Their Contribution to the SDGs: No Poverty, in the 2030 Agenda

Abstract

The 2030 Agenda through its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is meant to be a new way to improve life through eradicating poverty and hunger, combating climate change, and providing education. In addition, plans include efforts to create equality for women and improve the environment with a more responsible consumption of and care for water. The governments of each country must establish clear public policies that favor and facilitate the fulfillment of the 17 SDGs. The main objective of this chapter is to analyze the State Development Plans as well as the results reported for the United States of Mexico, to determine if they include the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda within the guiding principles of their plans, specifically the one referring to the end of poverty. According to the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2019 prepared by the UN Development Program (UNDP), there are more than 1.3 billion people who are poor in multiple dimensions in 101 countries. In Mexico there are eight million people who are living in multidimensional poverty, that is, 6.3% of its population. In addition, 4.7% of the population is at risk of falling into this type of poverty. As of YEAR, 43.6% of the Mexican population lives below the poverty line, and 2.5% of Mexicans are living on less than $1.90 USD per day.