This report analyses the market for the production, distribution and marketing of pork meat in Mexico and provides a series of recommendations to local authorities and government to improve the whole efficiency of the market.

In the last twenty years, Mexican animal agriculture - breeding, raising, and slaughtering pigs, cattle, and poultry (chickens and turkeys) - has undergone a radical transformation that has left the country with more meat but far fewer farmers. In many ways, this transformation echoed the...

Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively...

The paper examines the applicability of GDP-linked bonds for the financing of developing countries and emerging markets. GDP-linked bonds are bonds of which the coupon and/or redemption payments are tied to the GDP of the issuing country. The study encompasses a detailed empirical analysis of...

This paper studies the historical origins of the federalist institutions in Mexico and Brazil. Using a bargaining game model, I argue that the type of commodities each country produced by the end of the nineteenth Century determined the negotiation power of local governments. This led to the...