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"Over the medium time horizon, skill upgrading, differentials in sectoral technological progress, and migration of labor out of farming activities are some of the major structural adjustment factors shaping the evolution of an economy and its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the...
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This study analyzes a range of energy efficiency options available in Mexico, including supply-side efficiency …) development is not only about energy production and consumption. In Mexico one of the most important sources of greenhouse gas … emissions continues to be emissions from deforestation. The rate of deforestation has fallen steadily in Mexico over the past …
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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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labor market. Finally, the authors generate some tentative inferences about the impact on increased FDI on Mexico … direct investment (FDI) flows, creating jobs and reducing migration to the United States. Since poor data on illegal flows to … predictions using data on migration within Mexico where the census data permit careful analysis. They offer the first …
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Strong cyclical dynamics, together with an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is fragile, because investment spending is insufficient...
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This paper looks at firm-level evidence on the African business environment from surveys undertaken for Investment Climate Assessments by the World Bank in 2000-2004. These surveys confirm a pattern of generally low "factory-floor" productivity, and show that this is partly due to business...
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