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Analyzing Urban Systems : Have Megacities Become Too Large?

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2014
United States of America, China, Mexico, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia
Urban Tenure
urban areas
urbanization
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.
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Can Migration Reduce Educational Attainment? Evidence from Mexico

June, 2012
Mexico
land ownership
rural areas
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.
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Credit Constraints and Investment Behavior in Mexico’s Rural Economy

March, 2012
Mexico
Land & Corruption
corruption
farmers
land markets
transaction costs
urban areas
This paper uses two recently completed
surveys of individual entrepreneurs (farmers and
microentrepreneurs) and registered enterprises (agricultural
and nonagricultural) operating in Mexico s rural sector to
provide new evidence about the factors influencing the
incidence of credit constraints and investment behavior. To
measure the incidence of credit constraints, the authors use
self-reported information on whether economic agents have a
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Designing Natural Gas Distribution Concessions in a Megacity: Tradeoffs between Scale Economies and Information Disclosure in Mexico City

June, 2013
Mexico
land use
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
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America and the Caribbean

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2008
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean
Urban Tenure
agriculture
farmers
urbanization
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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Fundacion Jalisco Incubator : Mexico Case Study

September, 2014
Mexico
agriculture
After hearing of the success of
Fundacion Chile, the governor of the Mexican state of
Jalisco sought to recreate the foundation locally. The
result is Fundacion Jalisco, which seeks to import
successful business models to small farmers in Jalisco. For
its first project, the Fundacion imported high-yield
blueberry plants from the United States, started a nursery,
and gave the plants to local farmers who were capable of
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Gender Equity Promotion in the Private Sector in Mexico : The Development of a Successful Model

August, 2012
Mexico
land ownership
Worldwide, most countries recognize
equal rights between men and women. Many have produced
regulations intended to fight discrimination and programs
granting women access to health, education, and economic
rights such as land ownership. However, the fact remains
that women have fewer opportunities than men to benefit from
economic development, with lower participation in the labor
force. Even in the most advanced countries, their wages
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Labor Contracts and Risk Sharing

Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2013
Mexico
property
This paper analyzes the rationale and limits of using labor contracts as a risk-sharing mechanism by (1) discussing types of contracts and their characteristics; (2) deriving the optimal labor contract for risk-neutral firms and risk-averse workers; (3) contrasting the predictions of contract labor and spot labor markets; (4) discussing the limits of labor contracts as a mechanisms to allocate risks; (5) focusing on rural labor markets, where labor and land contracts provide substitutes and have implication in relation to risk allocation; (6) discussing government interventions; and (7) rev
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Lessons Learned for REDD+ from PES and Conservation Incentive Programs

Examples from Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
December, 2012
Ecuador, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
deforestation
fisheries
forest law
forestry
grazing
land use
property rights
sustainable development
transaction costs
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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Leveling the Field for Renewables : Mexico's New Policy Framework for Incorporating External Costs of Electricity Generation

September, 2014
Mexico
climate change
fisheries
forestry
land use
sustainable development
Mexico has started a number of
efforts to develop adequate policy frameworks in several
areas including the energy sector, transportation and
industrial policies, and forestry and natural resources
management. Its Climate Change Law and the National
Strategy on Climate Change envision is changing the upward
trend of its carbon dioxide emissions towards a total
decline of emission of thirty percent by 2020, and fifty