Reexaminando la “paradoja del desarrollo fronterizo” del norte de México: ¿mayores ingresos con rezagos en servicios públicos?

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to verify if the urban population of the municipalities of the northern border of Mexico hashigher incomes than those of other municipalities in the country, while suffering worse living conditions; that is what someauthorshave called “border development paradox”. To verify this issue, proportions were compared based on multidimensional poverty data from Conevalfor the period2008-2020,and more municipalities and population were considered than in any previous research. The results show that urban residents of the northern border have higher incomes, but also better access to services and less social deprivation.These results—which contradictsome previous research,but confirm others—are maintained throughout the entireperiod analyzed and with different territorial groups. Therefore, it is concludedthat there is no evidence of said paradox.