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inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels, even for those in income poverty. It is shown that inefficiency is …
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Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market …
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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...
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world: Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. Using population censuses, and POP's administrative records …
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This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit … supply constraints to the household's graduation from poverty. These constraints are difficult to overcome in a traditional …
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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. …
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redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for …
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Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between …
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The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
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This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …
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