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ZICCARDI, Alicia. Policies and social programs of the city in the XXI century. Pap. poblac [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.58, pp.127-139. ISSN 2448-7147.

In this work the topic of social policies is approached taking into account the policies of attention and alleviation of poverty, which are designed and implemented to assist grave and growing situations that are mainly registered in Mexican and Latin American cities in the framework of the imposition of neoliberal economic policies, from which a stressed tendency to generate, in the countries of the region, acute processes of "urbanization of poverty". In this paper the role local governments play, according to their capacities, in the design and implementation of social policies is analyzed, as well as the scope and limitations observed in the different processes of inclusion of citizens promoted from these social programs.

Palavras-chave : public policies; poverty; Mexico.