: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … access, on female owned enterprise creation in the informal sector ; and (iv) gender specific market access to inputs matters …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

expenditure and income survey for rural Mexico. It is shown that the corrections suggested in this paper are empirically important …

integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …

assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking … paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on … or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on …

several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm enterprises being more common in Nigeria and Tanzania. The population weighted cross-country gender difference in off …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …