poverty

Fabrice Leggeri, executive director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, said that building physical barriers does not solve the underlying problems that are causing migration: poverty and conflict

The daily minimum wage will increase from 73.04 pesos to 80.04 pesos, around 3.85 dollars per day, starting on January 1.

The survey sparked a scandal in Mexico after CONEVAL, another government agency that measures poverty using INEGI's income data, said the statistics agency's survey was not "congruent" with other published data.

A 2014 report revealed that 21.4 million children aged zero to 17 years live in poverty, of a total of 40 million.

80.5% of the population of San Juan Cancúc, Chiapas, lives in extreme poverty and 16.8% are moderately poor. Less than 3% of the inhabitants live above the poverty line.

According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, falling incomes were the main factor behind the rise in poverty.

The President stressed a decrease of marginalization in the country.