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The impact of Oportunidades on human capital and income distribution in Mexico: A top-down/bottom-up approach por Debowicz, Darío, Golan, Jennifer

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Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty: a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, and Russia por Skoufias, Emmanuel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty: a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, and Russia por Skoufias, Emmanuel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

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Mexico, Evaluation of PROGRESA por International Food Policy Research Institute

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The distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks in Mexico: threshold effects in a multi-region CGE model por Harris, Rebecca Lee

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The impact of Oportunidades on human capital and income distribution: A top-down/bottom-up approach por Debowicz, Darío, Golan, Jennifer

“…In an effort to inform social policy in Mexico, this paper analyzes the effects of a major social program on school attendance and household income distribution, accounting for its partial and general equilibrium effects. …”
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Evaluating targeted cash transfer programs: a general equilibrium framework with an application to Mexico por Coady, David, Harris, Rebecca Lee

“…This approach reflects the view that any credible poverty alleviation strategy must have a credible financing strategy underlying it, and this need for domestic financing can have important consequences for both the level and the distribution of household incomes. To illustrate the approach, the report focuses on the recent introduction in Mexico of an innovative poverty alleviation transfer program called PROGRESA, which has been used as a prototype for similar programs that have recently been implemented in other developing countries.…”
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The effects of migration and remittances on inequality in rural Pakistan por Adams, Richard H., Jr.

“…For example, Stark, Taylor and Yitzhaki (1986) fmd that internal and international remittances in Mexico have an egalitarian effect on rural income distribution.1 Two major reasons appear to account for such lack of consensus on the effect of remittances upon rural income distribution: the use of local-level data collection techniques that preclude making unambiguous empirical judgements about the effects of remittances; and the reluctance or inability to use predicted income functions to accurately estimate income before and after remittances.…”
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IFPRI's Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean por International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is host to some of the most difficult environments in the world, either because of altitude, climate, or topography, or because of huge inequalities in the distribution of land (the bottom 60 percent of landowners—those with the smallest landholdings—own only 4 percent of all land in the region), as well as striking income inequality in spite of economic growth as shown in <strong><a href="/sites/default/files/publications/lacstrategy_fig1.jpg">Figure 1</a></strong> (with an average Gini index score of 53.29 as compared to Asia and Eastern Europe, whose scores of 41.8 and 32.8, respectively, indicate far less income inequality). …”
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Estimation of a regionalized Mexican Social Accounting Matrix: using entropy techniques to reconcile disparate data sources por Harris, Rebecca Lee

“…There are three households in each region, disaggregated by income level, so that the SAM can be used in studies of income distribution. …”
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Collective action for water harvesting irrigation in the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico por Scott, Christopher A., Silva-Ochoa, Paula

“…Providing irrigation as a supplement to rainfall for crop production requires considerable collective action at the watershed level to mobilize labor and other resources, as well as to make decisions and implement the distribution of benefits. Small-scale water harvesting irrigation systems in Mexico have endured for centuries. …”
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A computable general equilibrium analysis of Mexico's agricultural policy reforms por Harris, Rebecca Lee

“…It also includes 15 households, defined according to region and income level to permit a rich analysis of distribution effects. …”
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An Agriculture-Focused, Regionally Disaggregated Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mexico, 2008 por International Food Policy Research Institute, Institute for Advanced Development Studies, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

“…The Mexico SAM thus presents a significant disaggregation of agricultural activities and to income distribution across households and subnational regions.…”
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Agriculture-focused, Regionally Disaggregated Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Mexico, 2008 por Jemio, Luis Carlos, Andersen, Lykke E., Wiebelt, Manfred, Breisinger, Clemens

“…The Mexico SAM thus presents a significant disaggregation of agricultural activities and to income distribution across households and subnational regions.…”
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Targeting performance of three large-scale, nutrition-oriented, social programs in Central America and Mexico por Mesoamerica Nutrition Program Targeting Study Group

“…This study evaluated whether three nutrition-oriented programs in Central America and Mexico have been successful in targeting those households most vulnerable to undernutrition and poverty. for each country, nationally representative data sets were used to estimate cutoff points dividing the population into 10 equal-sized groups according to child anthropometric measurements (age-standardized height) and household income (per capita household expenditures). …”
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Economy-wide effects of El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in Mexico and the role of improved forecasting and technological change por Harris, Rebecca Lee, Robinson, Sherman

“…This paper uses a stochastic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to examine the distributive effects of improved forecasting of ENSO in Mexico. …”
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Experimentation and model-based re-design for sustainable intensification of mixed crop-livestock smallholder farms in the Mixteca-Oaxaqueña region, Mexico por Reyna-Ramírez, Cristian Alejandro, Fuentes-Ponce, Mariela, Rossing, Walter A.H., Groot, Jeroen C.J., López-Ridaura, Santiago

“…OBJECTIVE: To apply and analyze the redesign mixed crop-livestock smallholder farms in the Mixteca-Oxaqueña region, Mexico, based on models and participatory experimentation, to propose more sustainable farm management alternatives. …”
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Implementing farmers' rights in genetic resources: Approaches to benefit sharing por Pachico, Douglas H.

“…With the advent of biotechnology and the emergence of property rights in genetic materials, the distribution of benefits from genetic resources is an issue of growing importance. …”
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The impact of the Central America free trade agreement on agriculture and the rural sector in five Central American countries: Executive summary por Jansen, Hans G. P., Morley, Samuel, Torero, Máximo

“…However, the Project’s main activities have approached a series of quantitative analyses, namely: Analysis of CAFTA’s impacts on macroeconomic indicators (economic growth, employment, imports, exports, etc.), sector behavior, income distribution and poverty, through simulations with national mathematical models such as Calculated General Equilibrium (CGE) models. …”
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Accelerating progress toward reducing child malnutrition in India: A concept for action por von Braun, Joachim, Ruel, Marie T., Gulati, Ashok

“…The prevalence of child malnutrition in India deviates further from the expected level at the country’s per capita income than in any other large developing country.; 2. …”
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