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    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2008
    Dominican Republic, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America. Together, in 2000-04, these countries accounted for 78 percent of the region's population, 80 percent of the region's agricultural value added, and 84 percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America.

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    Examples from Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2012
    Ecuador, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean

    Mexico, Costa Rica, and Ecuador have substantial experience with implementing payments for ecosystem services (PES) and conservation incentive programs. Yet, many aspects of their experiences remain poorly understood and will require special attention in any new or expanded use of these types of incentives.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Mexico, Northern America, Latin America and the Caribbean

    One of the most compelling reasons for pursuing low-carbon development is that the potential impacts of climate change are predicted to be severe, for both industrial and developing countries, and that reducing greenhouse gas emissions can reduce the risk of the most catastrophic impacts.

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    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014
    United States of America, China, Mexico, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia

    The trend toward ever greater urbanization continues unabated across the globe. According to the United Nations, by 2025 closes to 5 billion people will live in urban areas. Many cities, especially in the developing world, are set to explode in size. Over the next decade and a half, Lagos is expected to increase its population 50 percent, to nearly 16 million. Naturally, there is an active debate on whether restricting the growth of megacities is desirable and whether doing so can make residents of those cities and their countries better off.

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mexico

    This paper analyzes poverty in rural and semi-urban areas of Mexico (localities with less than 2,500 and 15,000 inhabitants, respectively) and provides guidance on a social agenda and poverty alleviation strategy for rural Mexico. The analyses are based on INIGH and ENE data sets for 1992-2002. Monetary extreme poverty affected 42 percent of the rural dwellers in dispersed rural areas and 21 percent in semi-urban areas in 2002, slightly less than one decade earlier.

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Mexico

    The study aims to contribute towards a
    national urban strategy, in an effort to maximize
    Mexico's cities competitiveness, and livelihoods, in
    the urban economists' terms - to maximize agglomeration
    economies, while minimizing congestions costs. The country
    is in a good position for this challenge: it has relatively
    a mature urban system, implying an overall urban population
    growth, and, a reasonably balanced system of cities.

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Mexico

    In 1995 the Mexican government initiated
    structural reform of the natural gas sector-reform that
    permitted private investment in transportation, storage,
    distribution, trade and marketing while maintaining a State
    monopoly in production. It prepared a detailed regulatory
    framework to implement the sector liberalization, including
    an element to develop distribution systems through
    concessions in specific geographic areas. The concessions

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mexico

    The authors examine the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico. Using historical migration rates by state to instrument for current migration, they find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on schooling attendance and attainment of 12 to 18 year-old boys and 16 to 18 year-old girls. IV-Censored Ordered Probit results show that living in a migrant household lowers the chances of boys completing junior high school and of boys and girls completing high school.

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Mexico

    The study aims to contribute towards a
    national urban strategy, in an effort to maximize
    Mexico's cities competitiveness, and livelihoods, in
    the urban economists' terms - to maximize agglomeration
    economies, while minimizing congestions costs. The country
    is in a good position for this challenge: it has relatively
    a mature urban system, implying an overall urban population
    growth, and, a reasonably balanced system of cities.

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Mexico

    This report evaluates the shortcomings
    of current housing policies, and provides a framework for
    analysis of alternative policies. Its message is threefold:
    First, housing has a significant role in terms of basic
    social support, where the housing unit is a source of
    capital accumulation, thus a key to expanding Mexico's
    middle class, from a minority to a majority. Second, the
    country is facing a two-tiered housing market, those that

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