, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … show that Mexican states are characterized by income and inequality convergence, that lower levels of inequality tend to … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …

statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country …

In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the selfemployed workers in Mexico over the … and investment liberalization. For the first decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among the self …-employed increased; as the economy stabilized and the country saw economic growth inequality started to go down, but poverty kept …