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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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convergence/divergence has mapped spatially and whether it makes sense to talk about spatial regions in Mexico. Although the rich …This paper studies the spatial dimension of growth in Mexico over the past three decades. The literature on regional … 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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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's trade performance over the past two decades has been disappointing. Efforts to boost trade through a plethora of regional trade agreements (RTAs) are underway. This study examines the potential contribution of regional trade agreements, as well as...
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exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over … municipal level for Mexico (2005-2010), the analysis finds evidence indicating that drug-related crimes indeed deter growth. It …
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Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …
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Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over the … in Mexico. They use four indicators of trade facilitation: port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory environment … it to the case of Mexico. The formula brings the below-average countries in the group half-way to the average for the …
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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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to an expenditure and income survey for rural Mexico. It shows that the corrections suggested in this paper are …
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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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This study performs an ex-post analysis of the effects of the trade liberalization in Mexico between 1989 and 2000 …
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