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"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...
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"The authors present real per capita GDP growth forecasts for all developing countries for the period 2005-14. For 55 of these countries, representing major world regions and accounting for close to 80 percent of the developing world's GDP, they forecast the growth effects of the main forces...
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total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …
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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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score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors …
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examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …
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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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"The authors examine the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico. Using historical migration …
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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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