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, social policy, and green development.
He is also a Senior Economic Research Consultant in the Strategic Policy Unit at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and holds a Research Associate position at the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQI), Tulane University.
Recently, Eduardo's work has been awarded Mexico’s National Prize of Public Finance 2020 and the King's Outstanding Thesis Prize 2021-2022. He has 15 years’ international research and policy experience. He 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).
Research
- Poverty dynamics and measurement
- Inequalities
- Human development
- Social protection
- Green development
Eduardo has pursued his research interests from two perspectives: methodological innovations in well-being measurement, and distributional assessments. His research has been cited almost 2,500 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, and Oxford Development Studies.
Further details
Research
Poverty, Inequality & Inclusive Growth research group
Exploring the causes of poverty in emerging economies and the factors that prevent people from escaping it, including who remains vulnerable to economic slow-downs.
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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’.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Features
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
Research
Poverty, Inequality & Inclusive Growth research group
Exploring the causes of poverty in emerging economies and the factors that prevent people from escaping it, including who remains vulnerable to economic slow-downs.
Status not setNews
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’.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Features
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.