poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income … inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find …