Mexico is Newton Fund partner country. The partnership was launched in 2014.
Mexico has the second-largest economy in Latin America and is a major oil exporter. But prosperity remains a dream for many Mexicans, and the socio-economic gap remains wide. Rural areas are often neglected, and huge shanty towns ring the cities. Many poor Mexicans have sought to cross the 3,000-km border with the US in search of a job, but in recent years more Mexicans immigrants have returned to Mexico than migrated to the US. [Source BBC].
Priorities for Mexico
Securing a community’s right to access safe water and food
Dangerous levels of arsenic are present in the soils and water of the Cerrito Blanco community in central Mexico. Arsenic contamination in the semi-desert area is 2,500 times higher than the limit set by the World Health Organisation, causing poor crop productivity and posing a serious health risk...
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Mexico has the second-largest economy in Latin America and is a major oil exporter. But prosperity remains a dream for many Mexicans, and the socio-economic gap remains wide. Rural areas are often neglected, and huge shanty towns ring the cities. Many poor Mexicans have sought to cross the 3,000-km border with the US in search of a job, but in recent years more Mexicans immigrants have returned to Mexico than migrated to the US. (BBC, 2018).
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