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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 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...
This policy note outlines short, and medium-term policy options for addressing critical challenges affecting labor markets in Mexico, and in particular labor productivity. As labor is the main source of income...
Reducing the footprint of growth requires a focus on three key issues: a) transforming urban areas into greener, more efficient, resilient, and socially inclusive cities, better able to capture the economic ...
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 »
Apr 08, 2013
This paper aims at proposing a view of the middle class based on vulnerability to poverty. Read More »