FONDEN (Natural Disasters Fund),
Mexico's fund for natural disasters, was established in
the late 1990s as a mechanism to support the rapid
rehabilitation of federal... Show More +
and state infrastructure affected
by adverse natural events. FONDEN was first created as a
budget line in the Federal expenditure budget of 1996, and
became operational in 1999. Funds from FONDEN could be used
for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of: 1) public
infrastructure at the three levels of government (federal,
state, and municipal); 2) low-income housing; and 3) certain
components of the natural environment. FONDEN consists of
two complementary budget accounts, the FONDEN program for
reconstruction and FOPREDEN program for prevention, and
their respective financial accounts. The FONDEN program for
reconstruction is FONDEN's primary budget account. It
channels resources from the federal expenditure budget to
specific reconstruction programs. The FOPREDEN program for
prevention supports disaster prevention by funding
activities related to risk assessment, risk reduction, and
capacity building on disaster prevention. The FONDEN system
is continuously evolving to integrate lessons learned over
the course of years of experience. Show Less -
Type: Working Paper
Report#: 75322
Date: May 1, 2012
This paper focuses on the impact that
two different types of policy interventions, namely
enhancing school quality and contingent cash transfers, have
on child labor... Show More +
and school attendance in Mexico. While there
are many studies on the impact of oportunidades on schooling
outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school
quality programs such as National Council of Education
Promotion (CONAFE) also reduce child labor and help keep
children in school. To carry out the analysis, it merge the
oportunidades panel dataset for the years 1997 to 2000 to
the CONAFE dataset containing detailed information on the
school quality program components. The econometric strategy
involves a bivariate probit model for child labor and
schooling, both for primary school aged children and
adolescents. In this way, the authors are able to control
whether the impact of the program on schooling differs
according to the age of the targeted child. The report
findings suggest that school quality programs are not only
effective in increasing school attendance, but also act as
deterrents to child labor, especially for children of
secondary school age. Show Less -
Type: Working Paper
Report#: 43937
Date: February 1, 2007
Author:
Rossi, M. ;
Rosati, F.C.
This report investigates the scope and
manner of regulations that enhance business activity and
those that constrain it. Quantitative indicators on business
regulations... Show More +
and their enforcement have been created for 12
cities and states, which can now be compared with Mexico
City, and to 154 countries around the world. The indicators
cover four "Doing Business" topics: starting a
business, registering property, getting credit and enforcing
contracts. The 12 cities and states are: Aguascalientes,
Aguascalientes; Celaya, Guanajuato; Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Merida, Yucatan; Monterrey,
Nuevo Leon; Puebla, Puebla; Queretaro, Queretaro; San Luis
Potosí, San Luis Potosi; Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico;
Torreon, Coahuila; and Veracruz, Veracruz. Comparisons with
Mexico City and other countries are based on the indicators
in Doing Business in 2006 - Creating Jobs (see report no. 34550). Show Less -
Type: Working Paper
Report#: 36225
Date: January 1, 2006
This paper uses panel data for Mexico
for 1997 to 1999 in order to test several theoretical
findings regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer
programs on... Show More +
child labor, emphasizing the differential impact
on indigenous households. Using data from the conditional
cash transfer program, PROGRESA, in Mexico. The authors
investigate the interaction between child labor and the
indigenous status of the household and find that indigenous
children showed a greater probability of working in 1997 and
this probability is reversed after treatment in the program
in 1999. Indigenous children also had a lower school
attainment compared to children that either only speak
Spanish or are bilingual. After the program, school
attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the difference. Show Less -
Type: Working Paper
Report#: 44097
Date: March 1, 2004
Author:
Bando, R. G. ;
Lopez-Calva, L. F. ;
Patrinos, H. A.
The restructuring and privatization of
the U.K. electricity supply - was it worth it? by David M.
Newbery and Michael G. Pollitt. A retrospective on the
Mexican toll... Show More +
road program (1989-94), by Jeff Ruster. The
private sector in water and sanitation - how to get started,
by Penelope J. Brook Cowen. Privatization and restructuring
in Central and Eastern Europe, by Robert E. Anderson, Simeon
Djankov, Gerhard Pohl, and Stijn Claessens. The drivers of
the information revolution -- cost, computing power, and
convergence, by James Bond. Telecommunications is dead, long
live networking: the effect of the information revolution on
the telecom industry, by James Bond. Telecommunicatons
reform - how to succeed, by Bjorn Wellenius. Liberalizing
telecommunications and the role of the World Trade
Organization, by Carols A. Primo Braga. What the
transformation of telecom markets means for regulation, by
Peter Smith. The private sector and the internet, by Carols
A. Primo Braga and Carsten Fink. Show Less -
Type: Working Paper
Report#: 18956
Date: September 30, 1997
Author:
Newbery, David M. ;
Pollitt, Michael G. ;
Ruster, Jeff ;
Brook Cowen, Penelope J. ;
Anderson, Robert E. ;
Djankov, Simeon ;
Pohl, Gerhard ;
Claessens, Stijn ;
Bond, James ;
Wellenius, Bjorn ;
Braga, Carlos A. Primo ;
Smith, Peter ;
Fink, Carsten
