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This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform’s objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the different actors involved. It delves into the main...
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– 1990–2015
This article is currently available on early view. The paper studies the decline of the labor income share (LIS) in Mexico during the period 1990–2015. The decline is mostly explained by reductions within the economy’s major sectors (including manufacturing, tradables, and non-tradables) rather than...
As with many other developed and emerging economies, in recent decades Mexico has experienced a long-term decline in the labour income share. The decline is observed in both the share of wages in value added and in more comprehensive measures that include the labour income of the self-employed. What...
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– 1990–2015
This paper studies the decline of the labour share in Mexico during the period 1990–2015. It calculates the wage share and alternative measures of the labour income share (which includes labour income of the self-employed) for the whole economy, the private business sector, and its major economic...
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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International remittances have been portrayed as the human face of globalization given their potential to alleviate poverty by directly increasing household income. Using a panel of rural households in Mexico from October 1998 to November 2000 this study assesses whether this is in fact the case...
Book Chapter
From the book:
Insurance Against Poverty
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Poor households with little or no wealth are particularly vulnerable to risks that reduce incomes and increase expenditures. This book addresses many of the risk-coping strategies for the rural poor, with a focus on micro level and household actions. Largely, these discussions concern risks that can...
Book Chapter
– The Case of the Mexican Automobile Industry
From the book:
Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy
– Problems and possibilities
Case studies of five countries uncover serious potential difficulties in maintaining the pace of manufacturing for export in the developing countries, and shows that there is no simple relationship between import liberalization and manufacturing for export.
Book Chapter
– Sustainability Issues in Mexico's Trade Policy Reform
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Manufacturing for Export in the Developing world
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– A Reconsideration of Past Policies and Assessment of Current Reforms
From the book:
Trade Policy and Industrialization in Turbulent Times
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– The Impacts of Protection
From the book:
Trade Policy, Industrialization, and Development
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