Social policy and the theory of justice; the foundations of extreme poverty alleviation in Mexico

Abstract

The paper shows that after the adoption of the development manufacture exporting oriented model, the authorities found in Rawls´ justice theory the foundations of social policy, particularly the one that refers to the struggle against extreme poverty. The reason of these finding is that only this foundation allows to make an active social policy compatible with the logic of the development model and with the economical policy of market liberalization. But in spite of the compatibility and possible synergies between both dimensions of the state task, the agenda of the struggle against poverty has several structural and institutional reform affairs to solve, which are absent in the global development strategy.