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 …

protection intervention program in combating poverty in Mexico. …Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCT) have been implemented in México and Latin America since the late 1990’s. This … poverty. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of conditional cash transfer programs as a long-term incentive in the use of …

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 …

-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. The intent-to-treat effect on poverty of cash …

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 …

This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation …