We use microsimulation to estimate the short-term distributional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico …. Although the potential increase in poverty is significant, we find that compared to their pre-shock income, those who lost the … most are the moderate poor and the vulnerable to poverty. We find that the impact on poverty is more severe for urban …

The health crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 has caused a profound social and economic disruption in Mexico. Our … purpose in this paper is to contribute to the knowledge about the economic impact of the pandemic in Mexico and to evaluate … Accounting Matrix for Mexico, with which we estimate the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 as well the likely effects of …

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 …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …