Salvador Pérez-Moreno is Full Professor at the Department of Applied Economics-Economic Policy at the University of Malaga, Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Affiliated Researcher at UNU-MERIT.

He holds a Master’s degree in Development Finance from the University of London (SOAS) and a PhD in Economics from the University of Malaga (PhD Extraordinary Award).

Founder researcher of the research group Public Economics and Equity (SEJ-559) and member of various international research networks (EQUALITAS, ECINEQ, Global Labor Organization, European Economic Association, etc.), he has been Visiting Researcher at a number of universities, among others, University of Cambridge, LSE and Maastricht University

His research interests cover ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES, POVERTY and INCLUSIVE GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT, with specialisation in PUBLIC POLICIES. The research results have led to numerous publications in high impact journal articles, books and chapters.

He has supervised six PhD theses (and another four in progress) and more than twenty Master’s dissertations. He has participated in more than 30 research projects and contracts, both at national and international levels, leading some research projects (Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Regional Government of Andalusia, etc.) and a large number of research contracts, with Maastricht University, LSE Enterprise, CIFAL Network, UNICEF, OXFAM Intermon, Cáritas, ”la Caixa” Foundation, among others.

He has been academic coordinator of the Master’s Programme in International Cooperation and Development Policies, and of the PhD Programme in Economics and Business of the University of Malaga, joint PhD programme of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and the Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies.

	Selected publications by Salvador Pérez-Moreno
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Angulo-Guerrero, María J., Elena Bárcena-Martín, Samuel Medina-Claros & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2024, Labor Market Regulation and Gendered Entrepreneurship: A Cross-national Perspective, Small Business Economics, Online, DOI: 10.1007/s11187-023-00776-0, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, María C. Blanco-Arana & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2024, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Transfer Policies on Poverty for Children with Previous Experience in Poverty, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Online, DOI: 10.1007/s10834-023-09939-3, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, Elena Bárcena-Martín & Jo Ritzen, 2023, Institutional Convergence and a Lingering Two-Speed Euro Area: A Response, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31(1): 106-110, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2021.1934657, More information
García-Pardo, Francisca, Salvador Pérez-Moreno & Elena Bárcena-Martín, 2023, Leaving No Country Behind: A Fuzzy Approach for Human Development, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 24(1): 1-23, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2022.2104824, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Elías Melchor-Ferrer & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2023, Assessing Regional Convergence of the Size of Middle Classes in Euro-Mediterranean Countries, Regional Studies, Regional Science, 10(1): 659-675, DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2023.2229421, More information
Arestis, Philip, Elena Bárcena-Martín, Natalia Martín-Fuentes & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2023, Foreign Direct Investment Openness and Income Classes in Europe around the Great Recession, Economic Research, 36(3): 2163270-, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2163270, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Julián Molina, Ana Muñoz-Fernández & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2022, Vulnerability and COVID-19 Infection Rates: A Changing Relationship during the First Year of the Pandemic, Economics and Human Biology, 47: 101177-, DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101177, More information
Arestis, Philip & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2022, Editorial: Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 24(4): 415-419, DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2021.1997748, More information
García-Pardo, Francisca, Elena Bárcena-Martín & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2021, Measuring the `Leaving No One Behind' Principle in the European Countries: an AROPE-Based Fuzzy Logic Approach, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 409: 170-185, DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2020.07.017, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Samuel Medina-Claros & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2021, Economic Gender gap in the Global South: How Public Institutions Matter, Social Indicators Research, 158(2): 459-483, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-021-02715-6, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Samuel Medina-Claros & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2021, Economic regulation, opportunity-driven entrepreneurship and gender gap: emerging versus high-income economies, International Journal of Entepreneurial Behavior & Research, 27(5): 1311-1328, DOI: 10.1108/IJEBR-05-2020-0321, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Beatriz Rodríguez & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2020, Rethinking Multidimensional Poverty through a Multi-Criteria Analysis, Economic Modelling, 91: 313-325, DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2020.06.007, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, Elena Bárcena-Martín & Jo Ritzen, 2020, Institutional quality in the Euro area countries: any evidence of convergence?, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 28(3): 387-402, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2020.1779044, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, María C. Blanco-Arana & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2018, Social Transfers and Child Poverty in European Countries: Pro-poor Targeting or Pro-child Targeting?, Journal of Social Policy: 1-20, DOI: 10.1017/S0047279418000090, More information
Arestis, Philip, Elena Bárcena-Martín & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2018, Differences in Institutional Quality across Euro Area Countries: Which Factors Contribute Most to Inequality?, Panoeconomicus, 65(3): 363-379, DOI: 10.2298/PAN1803363A, More information
Angulo-Guerrero, María J., Salvador Pérez-Moreno & Isabel M. Abad-Guerrero, 2017, How economic freedom affects opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in the OECD countries, Journal of Business Research, 17: 30-37, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.11.017, More information
Luque, Mariano, Salvador Pérez-Moreno, José A. Robles & Beatriz Rodríguez, 2017, Measuring Child and Maternal Health in Developing Countries: A Proposal of New Hybrid MDG Composite Indices, Applied Research in Quality of Life, 12(3): 737-758, DOI: 10.1007/s11482-016-9487-2, More information
Angulo-Guerrero, María J., Salvador Pérez-Moreno & Isabel M. Abad-Guerrero, 2017, Disparities in entrepreneurial activity and attitude across EU countries, European Planning Studies, 25(4): 680-702, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2017.1287163, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2017, Immigrant-native Gap in Poverty: a Cross-national European Perspective, Review of Economics of the Household, 15(4): 1105-1136, DOI: 10.1007/s11150-015-9321-x, More information
Luque, Mariano, Salvador Pérez-Moreno & Beatriz Rodríguez, 2016, Measuring Human Development: a Multi-criteria Approach, Social Indicators Research, 125(3): 713-733, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-0874-0, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Ana I. Moro-Egido & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2016, How Income Growth Differs with Children in Spain: a Comparative European Perspective, Child Indicators Research, 9(2): 357-370, DOI: /10.1007/s12187-015-9329-z, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, Beatriz Rodríguez & Mariano Luque, 2016, Assessing Global Competitiveness under Multi-criteria Approach, Economic Modelling, 53: 398-408, DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.10.030, More information
Galindo-Reyes, Fuensanta, Antonio Ciruela-Lorenzo, Salvador Pérez-Moreno & Salvador Pérez-Canto, 2016, Rural indigenous women in Bolivia: A development proposal based on cooperativism, Women's Studies International Forum, 59: 58-66, DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2016.10.003, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, María C. Blanco-Arana & Elena Bárcena-Martín, 2016, Economic Cycles and Child Mortality: a Cross-national Study of the Least Developed Countries, Economics and Human Biology, 22: 14-23, DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2016.02.005, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, 2016, Revisiting Growth-Poverty Relationship: A Medium-Term Causality Approach, South African Journal of Economics, 84(4): 624-635, DOI: 10.1111/saje.12120, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador & María J. Angulo-Guerrero, 2016, Does Economic Freedom Increase Income Inequality? Evidence from the EU Countries, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 19(4): 327-347, DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2015.1128832, More information
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Beatriz Lacomba, Ana I. Moro-Egido & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2014, Country Differences in Material Deprivation in Europe, Review of Income and Wealth, 60(4): 802-820, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12030, More information
García Lizana, Antonio & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2012, Consumption and Income Distribution: a Proposal for a New Reading of Keynes' Thinking, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 19(1): 45-66, DOI: 10.1080/09672560903552603, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, 2011, Financial development and poverty in developing countries: a causal analysis, Empirical Economics, 41: 57-80, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-010-0392-5, More information
López Toro, Alberto, Rocío Díaz-Muñoz & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2010, An Assessment of the Quality of a Tourist Destination: the Case of Nerja, Spain, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 21(3): 269-289, DOI: 10.1080/14783360903553164, More information
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, 2009, An Assessment of the Causal Relationship between Growth and Inequality in Spanish Regions, European Planning Studies, 17(3): 389-400, DOI: 10.1080/09654310802625296, More information
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Bárcena-Martín, Elena, Samuel Medina-Claros & Salvador Pérez-Moreno, 2020, Economic gender gap in the Global South: how institutional quality matters, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2020-025
Ritzen, Jo, Javi Lopez, André Knottnerus, Salvador Pérez-Moreno, George Papandreou & Klaus F. Zimmermann, 2020, Taking the challenge: A joint European policy response to the corona crisis to strengthen the public sector and restart a more sustainable and social Europe, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2020-015
Pérez-Moreno, Salvador, Elena Bárcena-Martín & Jo Ritzen, 2017, Institutional diversity in the Euro area: any evidence of convergence?, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2017-047