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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? A subjective well-being approach
Rojas, Mariano - 2012
inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels, even for those in income poverty. It is shown that inefficiency is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319920
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The rise and fall of income inequality in Mexico: 1989 - 2010
Campos, Raymundo; Esquivel, Gerardo; Lustig, Nora - 2012
Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319793
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Can a populist political party bear the risk of granting complete property rights? Electoral outcomes of Mexico's second land reform
de Janvry, Alain; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Sadoulet, … - 2011
The Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependence for beneficiaries on the ruling political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280072
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Campaign Externalities, Programmatic Spending, and Voting Preferences in Rural Mexico : The Case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme
Filipovich, Dragan - 2018
world: Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. Using population censuses, and POP's administrative records …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926169
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Mexico country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
During the 2000s Mexico grew less than the average for Latin America. Labour market indicators exhibited mixed changes … international crisis of 2008, but Mexico surpassed its pre-crisis output levels by 2012. Most labour market indicators were affected … negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418603
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Inequality and fiscal redistribution in Mexico: 1992-2015
Scott, John; de la Rosa, Enrique; Balcazar, Rodrigo Aranda - 2017
redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943797
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Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lustig, Nora; Scott, John - 2018
Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146485
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Impact of climate change on irrigation, crops and hydropower in Vietnam
Gebretsadik, Yohannes; Fant, Charles; Strzepek, Kenneth - 2012
Vietnam is among the countries that are assumed to be highly affected by the impacts of climate change through sea level rise; increased temperature and changes in precipitation resulting in changes in crop water requirements and yields; and changes in river flow with impacts on hydropower and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319767
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Infrastructure and climate change: Impacts and adaptations for South Africa
Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L.; … - 2012
This paper presents the results of the current study on the impact of climate change on the road and building infrastructure within South Africa. The approach builds upon previous work associated with the UNU-WIDER Development under Climate Change effort emphasizing the impact of climate change...
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Foreign aid for climate change related capacity building
Chen, Zexian; He, Jingjing - 2013
The current climate change crisis has repeatedly alerted mankind to the urgency of tackling this pressing global challenge before it is too late. Developing countries, which have contributed negligibly to the present climate change problem are, nevertheless, hit the hardest by, and are most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319818