The aim of this book is to understand why despite a considerable increase in average income in Mexico during the 1984-1992 period of economic liberalization, th

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is b

We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, ident

This report provides evidence of a fairly generalised increase in income inequality over the past two decades across OECD countries, but the timing, intensity a

Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques