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    Juan José Li Ng
    Juan José Li Ng
    Senior Economist
    Mexico City

    Juan José Li Ng works as Senior Economist in Mexico on issues of migration, remittances, development and evaluation since 2011. It is part of the team that makes the periodical publications Migration Outlook Mexico and Yearbook of Migration and Remittances Mexico.


    He supports and performs technical studies for the BBVA Foundation in Mexico. He has served as consultant for numerous public programs of federal agencies as: the National Institute for Women, Nacional Financiera, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Social Development, Oportunidades, SAGARPA, PEMEX, CONAFE, IFE, DICONSA, LICONSA, among others. He has taught at the UNAM the courses of Mexican economy, microeconomics, and financial mathematics.


    He studied economics at the Faculty of Economics at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and later the MA in economics at El Colegio de Mexico. He has worked in the Ministry of Health and the Interactive Museum of Economics.

    Latest publications

    May 31, 2023

    Mexico | Labor poverty recovers faster in rural areas than in urban areas
    As of the first quarter of 2023, labor poverty decreased by 1.1 percentage points in annual terms. Thus, 37.7% of the population in Mexico is in labor poverty, which implies that 48.6 million people cannot buy a food basket with their labor income.

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    May 8, 2023

    Global | WHO: The end of the international emergency for COVID-19 came after 1,192 days
    After 1,192 days of Public Health Emergency of International Importance (PHEIC) due to COVID 19, on May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that it no longer constitutes an international emergency and concludes the PHEIC, but the pandemic continues.

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    May 2, 2023

    Mexico | Will Financiera para el Bienestar pay the remittances from Banco del Bienestar?
    Banco del Bienestar stops paying remittances in 1,379 municipalities: in 928 (67%), Financiera para el Bienestar has a branch; in 325 (24%) there is a bank branch, correspondent or store to collect them; and in 126 (9%) there is no other payment point, the recipients would have to move to another municipality.

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