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    Financing of the private sector in Mexico, 2000-2005: evolution, composition and determinants

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    The 1994 Tequila Crisis was a disaster for Mexico’s financial and private sectors. This paper examines the evolution in financing to the private sector during a period in which the long-sought recovery in credit began to materialise, 2000-2005. It focuses on changes in the volume, accessibility, affordability, and diversity of financing to households and firms.
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    Determinants of wage differentials in the maquila industry in Mexico: a gender perspective

    The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007
    The off-shore industry located in the Mexico-United States border region commonly referred as the maquila industry has been highly dynamic. This paper provides a brief overview of how employment and wages have developed in the Maquila industry and presents the results of the econometric estimates and the calculation of the wage gaps.
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    Determinants of wage differentials in the maquila industry in Mexico: a gender perspective

    The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007
    In 2007, the off-shore garment industry located in the Mexico-United States border region, commonly referred to as the maquila industry, accounted for one third of all employment in the manufacturing sector in Mexico. But although the industry is booming, women and men do not enjoy the employment opportunities this presents equally.
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    Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equality. The Case of Colombia; Ecuador; Paraguay; Guatemala; Venezuela; Argentina; Bolivia; Nicaragua; and Mexico

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2006
    This series of reports provides a gender analysis of the progress made in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in certain Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Each report uses different instruments and methodologies to analyse the data.
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    Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: impacts on inequality

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This working paper examines whether Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
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    Housing, health and happiness

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    What is the causal impact of housing improvement programmes on health and welfare? This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. The paper identifies several positive results, including: 
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    Signing away the future: How trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries undermine development

    Oxfam, 2007
    This briefing paper argues that trade and investment are essential for development, and the imbalances that characterise and distort global trade and investment rules must be addressed as a matter of urgency.
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    Teacher labor markets in developing countries

    Future of Children, 2007
    Can the US learn from the experience of developing countries’ efforts to staff under-funded schools with quality teachers? This article summarises research into strategies used by developing countries to improve teaching and thereby improve student outcomes in schools serving poor populations.
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    Policy space for Mexican maize: protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2007
    This policy analysis examines the room for alternative policies for agricultural provisions in Mexico under existing economic and environmental agreements, including North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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    The impact of credit on income poverty in urban Mexico: an endogeneity-corrected estimation

    Department of Economics, University of Sheffield. Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series., 2007
    This paper examines the effect of credit on income poverty in three urban settlements in the surroundings of the Metropolitan area of Mexico City. The author finds a link between poverty impacts and lending technology.

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