The June 2009 issue of Migration Watch Mexico by the BBVA Bancomer Foundation and BBVA Research mentioned the importance of environmental phenomena as factors of population expulsion or attraction. Expulsion occurs when in the communities of origin the environment begins to be detrimental to the...

El desempleo juvenil en Espana es un fenomeno persistente que se ha agravado durante la crisis actual, alcanzando una magnitud tal (46,1% en 2T11) que la toma de medidas para atenuarlo no puede ser pospuesta por mas tiempo. La evidencia presentada en este documento indica que existen...

Latinoamerica viene experimentando un periodo amplio de crecimiento. Para que esta tendencia logre expandirse en los proximos años, se requiere cerrar brechas claves que puedan limitar la productividad total de los factores y asi evitar cuellos de botella. Una de esas brechas es la de...

China es ya una de las economias mas importantes del mundo, pero tiene muchas e importantes tareas que resolver, siendo una de ellas la implementacion de un exhaustivo programa social que debera abordar la disminucion de los recursos financieros de la tercera edad tras su retirada de la vida...

Latin America is enjoying a period of extensive growth. If this trend is to continue into the coming years, the key insufficiencies that could limit total factor productivity will have to be dealt with in order to prevent bottlenecks. One of these insufficiencies is the infrastructure gap. The...

Latin America is enjoying a period of extensive growth. If this trend is to continue into the coming years, the key insufficiencies that could limit total factor productivity will have to be dealt with in order to prevent bottlenecks. One of these insufficiencies is the infrastructure gap. The...

Despite the fact that China is already one of the most important economies in the world, the country has many big tasks to solve, being one of them the implementation of a comprehensive social agenda, including those related with the old-age stage and the consequently diminishing financial...

An ongoing reform in China mandates employers to contribute significant amounts to employee pension funds. The current study estimates the impact of this reform on the wage, employment and performance of firms using data from over 140,000 medium and large manufacturers in China during 2004 and...

We propose a fundamentals-based econometric model for the weekly changes in the euro-dollar rate with the distinctive feature of mixing economic variables quoted at different frequencies. The model obtains good in-sample fit and, more importantly, encouraging out-of-sample forecasting results at...

This paper presents a brief history of pension reform in Chile, and the reasons behind the introduction of individual privately-managed accounts in 1981, as well as the adjustments to the system introduced in 2006-07. The main conclusions are that the system is sound, but the reinforcement of...