To fight against poverty, overcome regional unbalance and avoid workers emigrating, the Federal Executive is asking businesses to invest in the country's most blighted areas. In exchange, they get tax advantages and special aids as part of a wide program to pep employment up and block the negative repercussions from the crisis in the US. (Ref. 080279)
The federal government drew a list of the most resourceless towns with less than 50.000 inhabitants, concerned by this special program. Launched in March by a decree from the Mexican president Felipe Calderón, the “Programa de Creación de Empleos en Zonas Marginales” (program for job creation in marginal areas) targets 17 million Mexicans who live in extreme poverty. The public powers want to avoid that this workforce, which lives in pariah economic areas, swell the ranks of emigrants to the Un
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