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Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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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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"Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over … sectors in Mexico. They use four indicators of trade facilitation: port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory …, and apply it to the case of Mexico. The formula brings the below-average countries in the group half-way to the average …
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"Mexico experienced a pronounced increase in the degree of inequality and earnings inequality over the 1980s and mid …
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, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate …
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earnings is found to be very low in Mexico, suggesting that the high level of inequality found in the cross-section will …
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"This paper studies the spatial dimension of growth in Mexico over the past three decades. The literature on regional … convergence/divergence has mapped spatially and whether it makes sense to talk about spatial regions in Mexico. Although the rich … after Mexico's post-liberalization seems to be much less associated with distance to the United States than the authors had …
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"Empirical evidence suggests that global trade reforms are unlikely to produce analogous results across countries, especially when analyzing their effect on poverty. This implies that the analysis of trade reform on social welfare cannot be generalized and needs to be conducted on a country by...
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method to an expenditure and income survey for rural Mexico. It shows that the corrections suggested in this paper are …
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"Mexico's creation and use of safeguard and antidumping processes to advance its liberalization illustrate three key … liberalization-accepting measure of international norms. An important innovation that Mexico made operational was the use within …
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