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The Mexican Ethanol Project has the potential of power up rural economy, improve the environment quality, and substitute the non-renewable fossil energy resources. But the risk of not achieving these is latent: the market distorts that it could unleash can change the expected outcomes. Public...
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Ageing populations pose a major challenge for long-term sustainability of public finances. The respond has been a wave of pension reforms that has lowered markedly the projected pension expenditure in EU countries. The increase in the second major expenditure item, health and long-term care...
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, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Once the specific question relating to pension contributions has been identified in the …
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system participation. For Colombia, only cross-section estimations are carried out, while panel data for Chile and Mexico … países de Latinoamérica. En Chile, Colombia y México, aún cuando cada uno de ellos tiene sistema de pensiones de … la participación en el sistema de pensiones. En el caso de Colombia, sólo se llevan a cabo estimaciones de corte …
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In a world economy interconnected by global value chains, where domestic productivity depends on the availability of imported inputs, the vast majority of workers stand to lose from protectionism. To exemplify this, we provide a quantitative assessment of the aggregate and distributional effects...
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the northern state of Jalisco to be promoted for the purpose of regional attraction, for cultural, economic and social …. This work will be announced strategic alternatives that both the State and other institutions can implement to promote …
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Who are the self-employed in rural Mexico? This paper tries to answer that question with special emphasis on the role of human capital in self-employment decisions. The model presented suggests that the need for leisure/flexibility may have a driving effect once the household framework is...
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This paper analyzes a large database provided by INFONAVIT, Mexico's principal mortgage issuer, which contains information on borrowers' repayment behavior. It finds that borrowers who received subsidies do not show higher default rates than borrowers who received no financial assistance....
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the supply of affordable housing. Tasking states with ensuring that municipalities comply with federal and state urban and …
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