Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial …

outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

This paper examines the relative importance of external shocks as sources of business cycle fluctuations in Mexico, and …, it finds that U.S. shocks explain a large share of Mexico's macroeconomic fluctuations after NAFTA. This partly reflects … greater trade integration-but also Mexico's "Great Moderation," as the country escaped its former pattern of macro …

differentials and nonlinearities in the behavior of sectoral real exchange rates across Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Interpreting … price threshold bands as transactions costs, we find evidence that Mexico still face higher transaction costs than their …

estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico …

This paper examines the relative importance of external shocks as sources of business cycle fluctuations in Mexico, and …, it finds that U.S. shocks explain a large share of Mexico's macroeconomic fluctuations after NAFTA. This partly reflects … greater trade integration-but also Mexico's ""Great Moderation,"" as the country escaped its former pattern of macro …

differentials and nonlinearities in the behavior of sectoral real exchange rates across Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Interpreting … price threshold bands as transactions costs, we find evidence that Mexico still face higher transaction costs than their …