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Measuring Ancient Inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
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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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837441
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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779238
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Weather Index Insurance and Shock Coping : Evidence from Mexico's Cadena Program
de Janvry, Alain - 2017
evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a pioneering, large-scale insurance program in Mexico. The focus of this …
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Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models : Evidence from Mexico
Halliday, Timothy - 2017
Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …
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Income Inequality and Violent Crime : Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
Enamorado, Ted - 2017
in a unique context: Mexico's Drug War. The analysis takes advantage of a unique data set containing inequality and crime … between 2006 and 2010. There are no significant effects before 2005. The fact that the effect was found during Mexico's Drug …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973072
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The Poverty Impact of Climate Change in Mexico
de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2017
This paper examines the effects of climate change on poverty through the relationship between indicators of climate change (temperature and rainfall change) and municipal level gross domestic product, and subsequently between gross domestic product and poverty. The evidence suggests that climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974371
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Municipal Vulnerability to Climate Change and Climate Related Events in Mexico
Borja-Vega, Christian - 2017
A climate change vulnerability index in agriculture is presented at the municipal level in Mexico. Because the index is … baseline that coastal areas host some of the most vulnerable municipalities to climate change in Mexico. However, it also shows … adverse socio-demographic conditions. With the vast municipal data available in Mexico, further sub-index estimations can lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974467
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Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora - 2017
studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974868
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The Impacts of Climate Variability on Welfare in Rural Mexico
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017
sensitivity and increasing the capacity of rural households to adapt to climate change in Mexico is likely to be more effective …
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