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The Role of Bank Restructuring in Recovering from Crises : Mexico 1995-98
Krueger, Anne O.; Tornell, Aaron - 2021
Mexico has experienced since 1995. Although fresh domestic bank lending dried up, tradable firms obtained financing in the …
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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …
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Targeting High School Scholarships to the Poor : The Impact of a Program in Mexico
De Hoyos, Rafael - 2019
This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867442
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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022592
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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico
Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016
experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982040
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Another Brick on the Wall : On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being
Bando, Rosangela; Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul J. - 2022
living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved … (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico … Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity …
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Germany's Economic Unification : An Assessment after Ten Years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2011
A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132721
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External Adjustment and the Global Crisis
Lane, Philip R. - 2011
The period preceding the global financial crisis was characterized by a substantial widening of current account imbalances across the world. Since the onset of the crisis, these imbalances have contracted to a significant extent. In this paper, we analyze the ongoing process of external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121032
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Macroeconomic Adjustment and the History of Crises in Open Economies
Aizenman, Joshua - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of the history of crises on macroeconomic performance. We first study the impact of past banking crises on the probability of a future banking crisis. Applying data for 1980‐2010 for all countries for which the required information is available, controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098139
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The Impact of Climate Change Skepticism on Adaptation in a Market Economy
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes. Induced innovation could offset some of this threat. This paper explores the demand and supply for climate adaptation innovation in a market economy. Climate change induces this innovation because the rising temperatures increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963172