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The article offers information on a luxurious jet for Mexico president, Enrique Pena Nieto, that symbolized an out-of-touch government in a country with lots of poor people. Topics include reports that sellers rarely recover fitting costs because new owners have their own ideas about colour schemes and comfy seats; and considered that National Lottery which is heavily indebted and lost money in seven of the past ten years is managing the raffle.

The article focuses on how an increase in taxes and fiscal reform in Mexico will impact the poor in 2014. Topics include the rate of poverty in Mexico in 2014, the increase in food prices alongside wage stagnation, and the federal minimum wage in Mexico. Information is provided on the application of value-added tax (VAT) on public transportation.

This section presents economic news and statistics, as well as statistics on health and life expectancy, for 25 emerging market countries. In China, consumer prices increased by 3.0% in the year to November, up from 1.8% the previous month. China ran a trade surplus of almost $5 billion in November, the second biggest this year. Industrial production in India rose by 5.4% in the year to October. The stock market rose by 2.5% over the week. In Mexico, industrial production fell by 0.8% in the year to October. Consumer prices rose by 4.0% in the 12 months to November. The gap in life expectancies between rich and poor countries is widening, according to the World Health Report 2003. A baby born today in Japan can expect to live for 82 years, with more than 90% of that in good health. In Sierra Leone, however, average life expectancy at birth is a mere 34 years, with more than five of those years spent in ill health. The WHO advocates international assistance to reform health-care systems in poor places.

Discusses flooding in Mexico as of 1999. Details of the flooding; Statistics on the death tolls and those displaced by the flooding; How the poor where the hardest hit by the flooding; Government preparation; Political aspects of the disaster.