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This Working Paper proposes a set of quantitative indicators of territorial equity to assess reforms to the regional financing system, comparing the current model with the Government’s recent proposal and several variations aimed at reducing arbitrariness.

Labor poverty measures, in the short term, the relationship between household labor income and the cost of the food basket, that is, their purchasing power. An increase in labor income would improve a household’s economic situation, while an increase in the cost of the food basket would worsen it.

Poverty stood at 31.8% in 2024, down from 34.6% in 2023 – a reduction of 2.8 percentage points. This means 1.3 million people exited poverty between 2023 and 2024. Overall, between 2012 and 2024, poverty decreased by 9.2 pp, falling from 41% to 31.8%.

This note contains information related to financial inclusion. Its objective is to present the latest trends and data on savings and transactional accounts and payroll accounts (in commercial banks), and retirement savings funds, disaggregated by gender.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) estimated that 35.4% of the population in Mexico was in a situation of working poverty, which represents an increase of 0.3 percentage points compared to the previous quarter.

This note analyzes the latest measurement regarding the proportion of the population in Mexico that is in labor poverty in the second quarter of 2024, carried out by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval).

With this note we analyze some indicators at the national level and by federal entities of the proportion of the population in labor poverty, based on the last quarterly update carried out by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval).