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Trade liberalization and the self-employed in Mexico
Popli, Gurleen K. - 2008
In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the selfemployed workers in Mexico over the … last two decades (1984–2002). This is the period over which Mexico opened its economy to the global market through trade … and investment liberalization. For the first decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among the self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284718
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Social impacts of climate change in Mexico: A municipality level analysis of the effects of recent and future climate change on human development and inequality
Andersen, Lykke E.; Verner, Dorte - 2010
mortality in Mexico. Climate was found to play only a very minor role in explaining the large differences in income levels and … child mortality rates observed in Mexico. This implies that Mexico is considerably less vulnerable to expected future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273903
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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 longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
McKee, Douglas; Todd, Petra E. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 67-100
Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and … improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … predict that Oportunidades will increase future mean earnings but have only modest effects on poverty rates and earnings …
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Raising utility and lowering risk through adaptive sustainability: Society and the risk of wealth inequity in Western Australia
Andrich, Mark A.; Oxburgh, E. Ronald; Imberger, Jorg - 2009
The Index of Sustainable Functionality (ISF) makes it possible to analyse domains and the sustainability of multiple systems from various perspectives. This paper uses available household wealth and income data to calculate the resource rich state of Western Australia's ISF from different wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335503
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Harnessing windfall revenues: optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies
van der Ploeg, Frederick; Venables, Anthony J. - 2009
A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276227
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Is Norway's bird-in-hand stabilization fund prudent enough? : fiscal reactions to hydrocarbon windfalls and graying populations
Harding, Torfinn; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2009
We estimate fiscal reaction functions for non-hydrocarbon tax and public spending shares of national income and for debt management strategies adopted by Norway and compare these with rules that would prevail under the permanent income hypothesis and bird-in-hand rule. We conclude that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276231
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Developing Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Outward Foreign Direct Investment
Park, Donghyun; Estrada, Gemma - 2009
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged in developing Asia as a policy response to an unprecedented accumulation of foreign exchange (FX) reserves since 2000. At the same time, developing countries have become an increasingly important source of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507256
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Stabilization and savings funds to manage natural resource revenues: Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan vs. Norway
Lücke, Matthias - 2010
Do the sovereign wealth funds of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan promote the sustainable use of government oil revenues? We review the operational rules and performance of the two funds and compare them to Norway's Government Pension Fund Global. The key challenges are to stabilize government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285363
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Bereinigung sozioökonomischer Effekte bei Schäden tropischer Wirbelstürme für eine Analyse zum Einfluss des Klimawandels
Schmidt, Silvio; Kemfert, Claudia; Höppe, Peter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 4, pp. 116-139
anzunehmen, dass der Klimawandel dazu führt, dass immer häufiger starke Wirbelstürme auftreten. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377861