Appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reduce poverty in Aguascalientes, Mexico
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to review the extent to which the institutional weakness of the Mexican state has impeded the poor from appropriating technology to obtain a sustained income in the labour market in order to overcome poverty through their own efforts. Methodology: The methodologic...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Entreciencias: Diálogos en la Sociedad del Conocimiento |
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| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/entreciencias/article/view/69387 |
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| Summary: | Purpose: The aim of this paper is to review the extent to which the institutional weakness of the Mexican state has impeded the poor from appropriating technology to obtain a sustained income in the labour market in order to overcome poverty through their own efforts.
Methodology: The methodological design of our research was sequential-exploratory and entailed a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Results: The results show that the institutional weakness of the Mexican state impedes people from appropriating ICTs to expand their opportunities to obtain a sustained income in the labour market in order to overcome poverty through their own efforts.
Limitations: The main limitation in this study is that we collected data in only one state of the Mexican Republic.
Main findings: The questionnaire we applied to ex-recipients of the anti-poverty policy Prospera has an acceptable confidence level to be able to make generalizations about the labour conditions of the poor people who are aged between eighteen and twenty-nine and completed high school in the state of Aguascalientes.
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| ISSN: | 2007-8064 |