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differences between the countries' typical household incomes-national income per capita in Mexico in 2002 was US …"This paper examines the ways in which lower-income households obtain basic financial services in urban communities in … Mexico and the United States. And it discusses the efforts that private sector and government organizations are making to …
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of immigration policy and its goal has become very weak and the level of foreign population is at an all time high …
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"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self …-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …
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"Formal and informal commercial sex work is a way of life for many poor women in developing countries. Though sex workers have long been identified as crucial in affecting the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the nature of sex-for-money transactions remains poorly...
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contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small …
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ongoing work under a joint energy study entitled INGENS - Income Generation through Energy and. Complementary Services. INGENS …
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total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …
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effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex … and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an increasing share …
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