Impact on Poverty and Inequality: Results from the 2020-2022 Tax-Benefit Mexican System
• Time: June 6th, 2024 (Thursday) 22:00-23:00
• Location: Online (Please find the Zoom meeting ID on the poster below)
• Speaker: Dr. Luis Huesca Reynoso & Dr. Linda Llamas
• Host: Julia Shu-Huah WANG, Associate Professor, NTUSW
※ This lecture will be conducted in English.
• About the Speakers
• Luis Huesca Reynoso (Professor, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, Sonora-Mexico)
PhD in Economics from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and Level 2 in the national system of researchers. Full-professor in Department of Economics in the Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD). Works on public and labor economics. Earned first place in National Prize for Labor research 2006 by the IDB and the Ministry of Labor. Contributed to MEXMOD tax-benefit microsimulation for Mexico.
• Linda Llamas (Professor, Universidad Estatal de Sonora, Sonora-Mexico)
PhD in Regional Development from the Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD). Member of the national system of researchers. Her doctoral thesis earned second place in the National Award for Social Research and Public Opinion 2018 by the Center for Social Studies and Public Opinion of the Honorable Chamber of Deputies in Mexico. Has academic publications on public economics and research projects on public policy advocacy and collaboration on the microsimulator for fiscal policies in Mexico (MEXMOD).
• About the Lecture
It presents first, a description of the social security system in Mexico and second, its social policy by measuring the impacts on poverty and inequality. The benefits and their fiscal cost are described as well as the coverage of beneficiaries using MEXMOD with an estimate of the resources that the programs should be assigned, based on the eligibility criteria to achieve universality. Poverty & Inequality before and after taxes and benefits are computed. Conclusions relate to revenue needed to meet the coverage according to the eligibility.
※ No registration required. Welcome to join us online.
※ Find more about Global Welfare Research 2024 on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/people/Global-Welfare-Research/100083190949048/
This lecture is supported by the National Science and Technology Council (112-2628-H-002-020-).
