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inclusive Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Modest investment rates despite attractive returns and low savings rates despite … inclusive growth, with special emphasis on the issues of savings and investment … environment is estimated at 3.5 percent. In light of South Africa's low national savings, the reemergence of high current account …
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Mexico's challenges in infrastructure finance can be framed along similar lines as other Advanced Economies (AEs) and … large Emerging Market Economies (EMEs). Mexico is particularly well placed to make capital markets a reliable financing …
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analyze the impact of the investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Mexico. The purpose of this report is to assess the … natural disasters in Mexico, and an overview on the creation and implementation of the Plan Hidrico Integral de Tabasco (PHIT …
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Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 focuses on the ability of financial systems to sustainably extend the maturity of financial contracts for private agents. The challenges of extending the maturity structure of finance are often considered to be at the core of effective, sustainable...
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estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … gross domestic product per capita growth by more than one percentage point, with similarly positive effects on savings and …
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Latin America's historically low saving rates and sub-par growth performance raise the question of whether the region should save more to grow faster. Economists generally resist acknowledging a policy-exploitable causal connection going from saving to growth because domestic saving is perceived...
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Private savings play a pivotal role in financing development and sustaining growth. Recently, there have been many … theoretical developments that underpin key determinants of savings behavior, many of which merit empirical investigation …. Understanding the dynamics of the determinants of savings is crucial to inform economic policy and devise reform programs. This …
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Mexico to the world-renowned beaches of Cancun, just north of the second-largest barrier reef in the world. The peninsula … Environmentally Healthy, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula explores selected topics that aim to inform …
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This report examines the role of infrastructure in explaining why the region lags so far behind the rest of the country. More importantly, it looks at how improved infrastructure may help the region catch up. Infrastructure is examined here through its impact on social as well as economic...
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reconstruction funds in Mexico, this paper provides some of the first estimates of the impact of disaster funds on local economic …
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