trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …

sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is linked to the adoption of an increasing returns to scale … poverty reduction is measured as a continuous decline in the share of the population living below $1.90/day purchasing power … not live in a market large enough to experience sustained poverty reduction. …

, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …