Gundersen, Craig; Yanez, Mara; Valdes, Constanza; Kuhn, … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2002
The social safety nets in Mexico and the United States rely heavily on food assistance programs to ensure food security … States uses only household targeting. U.S. food assistance programs tend to be countercyclical (as the economy expands, food … assistance expenditures decline and vice-versa). Mexican food assistance programs appear to be neither counter- nor procyclical …