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Eduardo  Ortiz-Juarez

Dr Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

Lecturer in Development Economics

Research interests

  • Economics
  • International development
  • Policy

Biography

Dr Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez is a Lecturer in Development Economics in the Department of International Development, with a particular interest in the study of poverty dynamics, inequalities, and social policy.

He is also a Senior Economic Research Advisor with the Inclusive Growth and Chief Economist's Office at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Eduardo's work has been awarded Mexico’s National Prize of Public Finance 2020.

Eduardo has 16 years’ international research and policy experience and has served as Senior Economist in the Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau at the UNDP in New York, as Deputy Director of Economic and Social Analysis at the Mexican Ministry of Social Development, and has done extensive consultancy work on poverty and inequality measurement, fiscal microsimulation, and distributional assessments for international organisations and governments, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), UNU-WIDER, and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB).

See Eduardo's website

Research

  • Poverty dynamics and measurement
  • Inequalities
  • Human development
  • Social protection

Eduardo has pursued his research interests from two perspectives: methodological innovations in well-being measurement, and distributional assessments. His research has been cited almost 3,400 times and comprises more than 30 pieces including chapters in collective volumes, institutional reports, and articles in leading journals in the field such as World Development, The Journal of Economic Inequality, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Indicators Research, Third World Quarterly, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and Oxford Development Studies.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • 6YYD0016 Advanced Topics in Development Economics

Postgraduate

  • 7YYDN003 Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy in Emerging Economies

PhD supervision

Eduardo is currently supervising the following students:

  • Luh Putu Kim Biesterfeld (Food security, Indonesia)
  • Vimuolea Hang (Social protection, Cambodia)
  • Natasha King (Adaptive social protection, East Asia)
  • Dythia Sendrata (Economic complexity and inequality, Indonesia)
  • Salome Ecker (Urban transportation and inequality, Mexico)
  • Alejandra Restrepo Areiza (Systems of care, Colombia)

Further details

See Eduardo's research profile

    Research

    International development
    Inequalities, Vulnerabilities, and Development Policy research group

    We are an interdisciplinary team within the Department of International Development. We bring together researchers and postgraduate students to explore economic and non-monetary inequalities, vulnerabilities, and related government policies.

    News

    International Development PhD student awarded King's Outstanding Thesis prize

    Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez won for his thesis, ‘Living Standards: Dynamics and Comparisons. An Analytical Framework for Emerging Economies’.

    Zacatecas, Mexico

    Researchers warn progress on tackling global inequality faces “a great reversal” by 2030

    A new paper by King’s researchers finds that the recent decline in global income inequality could start to reverse within the next decade and this inequality...

    Baby sleeping on floor as mother cooks, India

    Why does global poverty exist and could we share wealth more evenly?

    New podcast episode looks at levels and causes of global poverty and whether universal basic income schemes offer a way to address it.

    coffee cup and coins

    Academics warn of over-optimism around global poverty estimates and risks of unequal access to vaccines for the Global South

    Professor Andy Sumner and Dr Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, of the Department of International Development, have questioned ‘official’ estimates of global monetary...

    Street vendor in Bogota, Colombia

    International Development PhD student awarded Mexico's National Prize of Public Finance 2020

    Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez was awarded the National Prize of Public Finance 2020, delivered by the Centre for Public Finance Studies (CEFP), the think tank of...

    Rural Mexico Street

    COVID-19 could drive global poverty back over one billion people as the world's poorest face up to US$500 million per day in lost income

    In dramatic new numbers, researchers estimate that extreme poverty could spike as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the day the postponed meeting of the...

    COVID-19 worker

    Half a billion people in developing countries could be pushed into poverty by COVID-19

    King’s academics warn of ‘potential poverty tsunami’ as decades of economic improvements are set to be reversed.

    Street vendor

    Features

    The new Mexican president: tackling inequality

    In this video, DR EDUARDO ORTIZ-JUAREZ examines how the social policies of the ruling leftist party led to a reduction in poverty in Mexico.

    Marketplace in Mexico

    Eradicating poverty in a post-pandemic world: how the G7 can act to end both the pandemic and global poverty

    Professor Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez discuss how we can eradicate global poverty as part of the Build Back Better Together essay series.

    Eradicating Poverty Feature Image

    Coronavirus is pushing people into poverty – but temporary basic income can stop this

    Unconditional emergency assistance is an urgent, fair and feasible way of stopping people falling into poverty or further impoverishment as a result of the...

    The pandemic has disrupted informal work worldwide, leaving many without any form of income. EPA-EFE

    Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s

    New research shows the economic impact of COVID-19 could shift global poverty towards middle-income countries and South and East Asia.

    India is one country where poverty levels are expected to rise. credit EPA-EFE

    Informing the public debate on COVID-19

    Academics from across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy are helping us all better understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19...

    Newspapers Image

    Understanding the impacts on society of COVID-19

    How the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is helping us understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    empty stores hero sized

      Research

      International development
      Inequalities, Vulnerabilities, and Development Policy research group

      We are an interdisciplinary team within the Department of International Development. We bring together researchers and postgraduate students to explore economic and non-monetary inequalities, vulnerabilities, and related government policies.

      News

      International Development PhD student awarded King's Outstanding Thesis prize

      Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez won for his thesis, ‘Living Standards: Dynamics and Comparisons. An Analytical Framework for Emerging Economies’.

      Zacatecas, Mexico

      Researchers warn progress on tackling global inequality faces “a great reversal” by 2030

      A new paper by King’s researchers finds that the recent decline in global income inequality could start to reverse within the next decade and this inequality...

      Baby sleeping on floor as mother cooks, India

      Why does global poverty exist and could we share wealth more evenly?

      New podcast episode looks at levels and causes of global poverty and whether universal basic income schemes offer a way to address it.

      coffee cup and coins

      Academics warn of over-optimism around global poverty estimates and risks of unequal access to vaccines for the Global South

      Professor Andy Sumner and Dr Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, of the Department of International Development, have questioned ‘official’ estimates of global monetary...

      Street vendor in Bogota, Colombia

      International Development PhD student awarded Mexico's National Prize of Public Finance 2020

      Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez was awarded the National Prize of Public Finance 2020, delivered by the Centre for Public Finance Studies (CEFP), the think tank of...

      Rural Mexico Street

      COVID-19 could drive global poverty back over one billion people as the world's poorest face up to US$500 million per day in lost income

      In dramatic new numbers, researchers estimate that extreme poverty could spike as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the day the postponed meeting of the...

      COVID-19 worker

      Half a billion people in developing countries could be pushed into poverty by COVID-19

      King’s academics warn of ‘potential poverty tsunami’ as decades of economic improvements are set to be reversed.

      Street vendor

      Features

      The new Mexican president: tackling inequality

      In this video, DR EDUARDO ORTIZ-JUAREZ examines how the social policies of the ruling leftist party led to a reduction in poverty in Mexico.

      Marketplace in Mexico

      Eradicating poverty in a post-pandemic world: how the G7 can act to end both the pandemic and global poverty

      Professor Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez discuss how we can eradicate global poverty as part of the Build Back Better Together essay series.

      Eradicating Poverty Feature Image

      Coronavirus is pushing people into poverty – but temporary basic income can stop this

      Unconditional emergency assistance is an urgent, fair and feasible way of stopping people falling into poverty or further impoverishment as a result of the...

      The pandemic has disrupted informal work worldwide, leaving many without any form of income. EPA-EFE

      Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s

      New research shows the economic impact of COVID-19 could shift global poverty towards middle-income countries and South and East Asia.

      India is one country where poverty levels are expected to rise. credit EPA-EFE

      Informing the public debate on COVID-19

      Academics from across the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy are helping us all better understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19...

      Newspapers Image

      Understanding the impacts on society of COVID-19

      How the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is helping us understand the huge societal shifts created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

      empty stores hero sized