I’m an economist at King’s College London and a Nonresident Research Associate at the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQI), with a particular interest in the study of poverty, inequalities, human development and social and fiscal policies. Prior to that, I was a Nonresident Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University, and worked as Senior Economist and Economist at the Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York. I have done extensive consultancy work for several organisations and national governments, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB). I have also served as Deputy Director of Economic and Social Analysis at the Mexican Ministry of Social Development. My research has been published in peer reviewed journals and collective volumes and reports and has been cited over 1,400 times.

Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

Publications

Selected journals articles and book chapters (for a full list of publications and most recent working papers see my CV)

Selected Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Living on the Edge: Vulnerability to Poverty and Public Transfers in Mexico

(With Alejandro de la Fuente & Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán), 2018, Oxford Development Studies, 46(1): 10-27.

Published version

A Long-Term Perspective on Inequality and Human Development in Latin America

(With Luis F. López-Calva & Nora Lustig), 2015, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 16(3): 319-323.

Published version

A Vulnerability Approach to the Definition of the Middle Class

(With Luis F. López-Calva), 2014, Journal of Economic Inequality, 12(1): 23-47.

Blog posts in Americas Quarterly and WIDER Angle.
Coverage in (selected) The Broker, El País, The Huffington Post, and The Economist Intelligence Unit

Published version

Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

(With Nora Lustig & Luis F. López-Calva), 2013, World Development, 44: 129-141.

Coverage in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Página 12, and World Bank blog.

Published version

A Household-based Distribution-sensitive HDI: An Empirical Application to Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru

(With Luis F. López-Calva), 2012, Social Indicators Research, 109(3): 395-411.

Published version

Selected Chapters in Books

The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in Chile

(With Sandra Martínez-Aguilar, Alan Fuchs & Giselle Del Carmen), 2018, in: Lustig, Nora (ed.) Commitment to Equity Handbook: A Guide to Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Handbook

Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America

(With Nora Lustig & Luis F. López-Calva), 2016, in: Basu, Kaushik & Siglitz, Joseph (eds.) Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. Volume II: Regions and Regularities, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Interview in BBC

Inequality, Mobility and Middle Classes in Latin America

(With João Pedro Azevedo, Luis F. López-Calva & Nora Lustig), 2015, in: Dayton-Johnson, Jeffrey (ed.) Latin America's Emerging Middle Classes, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapter

Recent working papers and reports

Within-Country Poverty Convergence: Evidence from Mexico

(With Luis F. López-Calva & C. Rodríguez-Castelán), 2020, IZA Discussion Paper 13577, IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Working paper

Precarity and the Pandemic: COVID-19 and Poverty Incidence, Intensity and Severity in Developing Countries

(With A. Sumner & C. Hoy), 2020, WIDER Working Paper 77/2020, UNU-WIDER

Blog posts in WIDER Angle, Global Policy, and The Conversation, and interview in The Guardian
Coverage in (selected) DevEx, The Independent, and Reuters

Working paper

Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on Global Poverty

(With A. Sumner & C. Hoy ), 2020, WIDER Working Paper 43, UNU-WIDER

Blog post in WIDER Angle
Coverage in (selected) The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and Slate
Input for Oxfam's Dignitiy Not Destitution economic rescue plan

Working paper

Temporary Basic Income: Protecting Poor and Vulnerable People in Developing Countries

(With G. Gray Molina), 2020, Transition Series, UNDP Global Policy Network, New York.

Blog post in The Conversation
Coverage in (selected) Al Jazeera, CNBC, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and Reuters.

Policy Report

Work in progress

Identifying the Chronic Poor in the Absence of Panel Data

(With L. F. López-Calva & C. Rodríguez-Castelán)

Nowcasting Local Economic Impacts of COVID-19

(With C. Rodríguez-Castelán)

The Local Inequality Effects of High-Speed Mobile Internet Access: Evidence from Mexico

(With C. Rodríguez-Castelán)

The Global Inequality Boomerang?

(With R. Kanbur & A. Sumner)

Poverty and Inequality

(With A. Sumner), in: Phillips, Nicola (ed.) Global Political Economy: A New Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Measuring Social Cohesion in Latin America: An Empirical Approximation using Structural Equation Modeling

(With S. Martínez-Aguilar)

The Political Economy of Fiscal Progressiveness and Redistribution in Latin America
(With N. Castañeda & A. Mejía Acosta)

Get in touch

King’s College London
Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Bush House, North East Building, Room 4.20
30 Aldwych, London, UK, WC2B 4BG