Publications

This note describes some of the main results of the report "Social Mobility in Mexico, 2025, the path towards financial inclusion" presented by the Espinosa Yglesias Study Center (CEEY).

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 report presents the multidimensional poverty for municipalities in Mexico between 2010 and 2020. The study reveals a decline in poverty levels across 70.3% of the municipalities, though it also identifies significant variations in urban areas and highlights shortcomings in health services and educational coverage.

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).

37.8% of the population in Mexico was in a situation of working poverty as of the second quarter of 2023, that is, close to 49.6 million people in the country were not capable of covering the cost of the food basket with their labor income.

In the last thirty years, Chile has experienced an economic miracle. It went from having a GDP per capita 50% lower than that of Mexico in 1974 to one 47% higher than our country in 2022.

This paper explores the relationship between human capital inequality and income inequality, using an updated data set on human capital inequality for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010 and a novel database on earnings inequality.

This Economic Watch assesses the decline in social welfare resulting from the reduction in GDP per capita and life expectancy caused by the pandemic.