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 …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved … (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico … Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity. …