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While there are different estimates of poverty in Mexico, there is general agreement that poverty is widespread, and that the reduction of poverty should be a key area of focus for the new Administration. Beyond lack of income, poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomena which affects...
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, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … show that Mexican states are characterized by income and inequality convergence, that lower levels of inequality tend to … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205104
, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … show that Mexican states are characterized by income and inequality convergence, that lower levels of inequality tend to … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029548
El artículo brinda un diagnóstico general sobre la pobreza laboral y desigualdad en México utilizando datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Ocupación y Empleo para el periodo 2005-2012 y la definición de pobreza laboral utilizada por el Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de...
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We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...
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We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141906
We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881778
We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881782
The Mexican Government initiated two innovative programs cash transfer schemes in the last decade: PROGRESA, which is a national anti-poverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, a scheme designed to compensate farmers for the negative price effects of NAFTA. The analysis of...
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Using administrative data from the urban Mexican Oportunidades program, this paper analyzes why poor households choose less education for their children, even when offered financial compensation for school attendance. Each school year, half of recipients forgo income for which they are eligible...
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