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Given the current share of the rural sector in the national population (24%), average public expenditure per capita is similar in the urban and rural sectors. Read More »
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Rather than encouraging exit from the formal sector, Seguro Popular is associated with a reduction in the inflow of workers into formality. Read More »
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Contrary to previous results, this analysis finds a rather weak relationship between exports and productivity growth. Read More »
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Take-up of voluntary financial education programs is typically extremely low. This paper reports on randomized experiments around a large financial literacy course offered in Mexico City to understand the reasons...
This paper examines the effects of climate change on poverty through the relationship between indicators of climate change (temperature and rainfall change) and municipal level gross domestic product, and ...
This note presents an overview of Mexico's forthcoming reform agenda-from the World Bank's vantage point. It distills the main messages in the policy notes that make up this compendium. The purpose is not to...
This note reviews the challenges in Mexicos social protection system and possible options to achieve an integral and effective system that is more than the sum of its parts. Mexicos social protection system ...
This note outlines a short, to medium-term reform agenda to foster sound financial sector development. Mexico needs to broaden and deepen its financial system without compromising the financial stability gains of...
About three quarters of indigenous peoples in Mexico are poor, while only half of non indigenous people live below the official poverty line. Read More »
This paper aims at proposing a view of the middle class based on vulnerability to poverty. Read More »