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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
    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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Mexico

    In 2002, half of Mexico's
    population lived in poverty and one fifth in extreme
    poverty, slightly lower than before the 1994-1995 crisis.
    Mexico has made major progress in some poverty dimensions
    -health, nutrition and education outcomes, access to basic
    health and education services, electricity, water and (to a
    lesser extent) sanitation. Large increases in government
    spending enabled key social programs to expand. Programs

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mexico

    Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer a number of opportunities and specific challenges for the poor, low quality and high costs restrict real access to basic public services. Yet, the urban-rural distinctions need to be seen as a continuum, where depth and characteristics of poverty vary with settlement size. The objective of this report is to inform the design of urban poverty interventions. It is organized as follows.

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mexico

    The chapters, or "policy
    notes," of this report, creating the foundations for
    equitable growth in Mexico 2006-2012, are dedicated to
    trying to solve parts of the puzzle as to why Mexico's
    level of economic development has failed to approach the
    level of its NAFTA trading partners, or the level of a
    typical OECD member state. Each chapter of this new report
    uses the 2000 policy notes as a reference. In this report,

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