دانلود رایگان مقاله کارایی در تولید رفاه اجتماعی در مکزیک: پیشنهاد در کنار خروجی های بد

abstract

One of the main goals of any country is to secure the general welfare of society, entailing positive levels of education, health and income, coupled with low levels of social inequality. The following paper studies the efficient use of economic and social resources to generate social welfare in the presence of bad outputs in the states of Mexico during 2010. A two-level data envelopment analysis model was used to determine how efficient the 32 states of the Mexican Republic were, considering as model variables the socioeconomic indicators of the three dimensions of human development (education, health and income), and the data on poverty or inequity in the country. The analysis of the results reveals that only 5 of the 32 units studied were efficient in generating welfare and in reducing poverty, while the rest need to increase their welfare levels and especially reduce inequity in education and income using the economic and social resources they possess.

5. Conclusions

Social welfare is the satisfaction of a society's basic and secondary needs, and is one of the main goals of any country. The quest to determine the level of social welfare has resulted in several consolidated composite indexes, the most representative of which is the HDI. The HDI uses three dimensions (education, health and income) to characterize the level of welfare in a society. However, this index has come under close scrutiny in the literature. This study revisited the representativeness of the HDI and considered some of the main criticisms (the arbitrariness in establishing weights by dimension of human development, and the inclusion of variables of inequity for HDI dimensions) in an attempt to assess how efficiently economic and social resources were used to generate social welfare and reduce inequality indicators in the 32 states of the Mexican Republic in 2010.