Resumo

SALVADOR BENITEZ, Loreto. Development, education and poverty in Mexico. Pap. poblac [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.55, pp.237-257. ISSN 2448-7147.

This work analyses development, education and poverty in Mexico, due to the close relation among them. Development implies access to basic resources, such as: education and nourishment, health services, housing, employment and a fair income distribution; education is the set of institutional actions and influences whose aim is to cultivate and develop in the individual aptitudes, knowledge, competences, attitudes and behaviors, which allow the capacities related to men and women's autonomy and freedom to unfold; finally, poverty, altogether with scarcity and exclusion, is a denial of opportunities and options to said development, not the expansion of personal capacities because of lack of education.

Palavras-chave : development; human capacities; education; poverty.