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PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico por Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…PROGRESA is one of the major programs of the Mexican government aimed at developing the human capital of poor households. …”
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First External Management Review of CIMMYT, 1988 por CGIAR Secretariat

“…Review Panel recommendations include: greater attention by the board to performing all its critical functions, and improvement of its internal structure and procedures; appointment of a deputy director general for research and training; establishment of a management committee headed by the director general; strengthening the accountability and performance evaluation criteria for units and individuals; developing a project-based management and budget system; international recruitment of a Human Resources Officer; relieving the financial burden on national staff resulting from the depressed state of the Mexican economy; adopting a fund raising strategy; and increasing the prominence of the internal audit function.Agenda document at TAC 47, and the CGIAR meeting of May-June, 1989.…”
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Presentation for Tackling Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases in Mexico: A Policy Approach por Barquera, Simón

“…Barquera will speak about the Mexican government’s efforts to improve food environments in Mexico, as well as the response of the food industry to these efforts. …”
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US trade wars in the twenty‐first century with emerging countries: Make America and its partners lose again por Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…While losses for China are relatively small, potential losses for the Mexican economy are significant. There are also free riders of these trade wars. …”
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The impact of Progresa on food consumption por Hoddinott, John F., Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…This paper contributes to this debate through an analysis of a Mexican antipoverty program called PROGRESA (the Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación). …”
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The impact of PROGRESA on community social relationships: final report por Adato, Michelle

“…PROGRESA’s objective is to provide Mexican families living in extreme poverty access to opportunities for meeting their basic education, health and nutritional needs. …”
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The impact of Progresa on food consumption por Hoddinott, John F., Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…This paper contributes to this debate through an analysis of a Mexican antipoverty program called PROGRESA (the Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación). …”
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CIAT and grupo papalotla: A 25-year collaboration shaping a tropical forages culture por Pazos Cardenas, Mateo, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan

“…The aim of this poster is to recount the history of 25 years of institutional, scientific, and commercial relationship between the Tropical Forages research program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Mexican company Grupo Papalotla developing Urochloa hybrids. …”
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A sobemovirus hindering the utilization of Calopogonium mucunoides as a forage legume in the lowland tropics por Morales, Francisco José, Castaño, M., Arroyave, José A., Ospina, M.D.

“…However, the host range of the calopo virus differed from the pathogenicity spectra of the bean, cowpea, Ghanaian, and Mexican strains of SBMV. Nucleotide sequence analysis of a 609 bp fragment amplified from the coat protein region of the calopo sobemovirus revealed similarities of 81.8 and 66.1% with the corresponding regions of the bean and cowpea strains, respectively, of SBMV. …”
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Cryopreservation and storage of embryogenic callus cultures of several Citrus species and cultivars por Perez, Rosa, Navarro, Luis, Durán-Vila, Núria

“…Burm. f.], Cleopatra mandarin (C. reshni Hort, ex Tan.), sour orange (C. aurantium L.) and Mexican lime [C. aurantifolia (Christm.) Swing.] have been successfully cryopreserved. …”
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The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades por Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Tasneem, Afia

“…Simulations show that, for a range of inequality aversion parameters, the welfare gains from current redistribution for the Mexican PROGRESA CCT program can be as large, or possibly much larger, than the estimated present discounted value of future earnings from human capital investments in lower and upper secondary schooling. …”
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Is smuggling welfare-improving? Evidence from avocados in Costa Rica por Metivier, Jeanne, Bouët, Antoine

“…Using unique data on trade, production, and the price of Costa Rican and Mexican avocados, we find that the quantity of avocados smuggled into Costa Rica on an annual basis ranges from 4,668 to 10,232 metric tons, representing up to four times the quantity of locally produced avocados. …”
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The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA por Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Tasneem, Afia

“…Simulations show that for a range of inequality aversion parameters, the welfare gains from current redistribution for the Mexican PROGRESA conditional cash transfer program are as large, or possibly much larger, than the estimated present discounted value of future earnings from human capital investments in lower and upper secondary schooling. …”
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Strengths and limitations of small and medium-sized maize seed companies in Latin America por Silva Hinojosa, Arturo, Boddupalli, P.M., Davis, Nicholas

“…This document seeks to describe the strengths and limitations of Latin American small- and medium-sized seed enterprises (“seed SMEs”), with a particular focus on Mexican companies that colaborated with CIMMYT between 2011 and 2021, by studying a representative sample consisting of 10 companies whose marketing data and product portfolio were analyzed in depth. …”
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Conditional cash transfers and their impact on child work and schooling: evidence from the PROGRESA program in Mexico por Skoufias, Emmanuel, Parker, Susan W.

“…PROGRESA is a new program of the Mexican government aimed at alleviating extreme poverty in rural areas. …”
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Conditional cash transfers and their impact on child work and schooling: evidence from the PROGRESA program in Mexico por Skoufias, Emmanuel, Parker, Susan W.

“…PROGRESA is a new program of the Mexican government aimed at alleviating extreme poverty in rural areas. …”
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PROGRESA and its impacts on the human capital and welfare of households in rural Mexico: a synthesis of the results of an evaluation by IFPRI por Skoufias, Emmanuel

“…PROGRESA is one of the major programs of the Mexican government aimed at developing the human capital of poor households. …”
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Legal and institutional frameworks at national and subnational levels for biofuel promotion in Mexico por Romero Hernández, O., Masera, O., Romero, S., Grunstein, M.

“…This country report includes an analysis of the legal and institutional frameworks that underpin Mexico’s bioenergy sector, including provisions of policies, laws and regulations. The Mexican legal framework is well defined. The policy framework is a top-down structure with national plans at the top, linked to several sector and ministerial plans, which are finally linked to specific programmes. …”
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New genes in traditional seed systems: diffusion, detectability and persistence of transgenes in a maize metapopulation por Heerwaarden, Joost van, Ortega Del Vecchyo, D., Álvarez Buylla, E.R., Bellon, M.

“…In contrast to maize in the U.S. and Europe, Mexican landraces form part of an evolving metapopulation in which new genes are subject to evolutionary processes of drift, gene flow and selection. …”
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Genetic mapping of microsatellite markers around the arcelin bruchid resistance locus in common bean por Blair, Matthew W., Muñoz, C., Buendía Castellanos, Hector F., Flower, J, Bueno Mondragon, J.M., Cardona Mejía, César

“…The deployment in common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) of arcelin-based bruchid resistance could help reduce post-harvest storage losses to the Mexican bean weevil [(Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman)]. …”
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