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Population	87.89 mln
Population growth	2%
Life expectancy	72 years
Net migration	-900,000

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GDP	$144.06 bln
- per capita	$1,639
- growth rate	7%
FDI, net inflows	$2.93 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	59%
Internet users	6%
High-tech exports	54%

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The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply

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Moderate effects of pollution on health may exert an important influence on labor market decisions. The authors exploit exogenous variation in pollution due to the closure of a large refinery in Mexico City to understand how pollution impacts labor supply. The closure led to an 8 percent decline in pollution in the surrounding neighborhoods. It was found that a one percent increase in sulfur dioxide results in a 0.61 percent decrease in the hours worked. The effects do not appear to be driven more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 13, 2012

Mortality Amenable to Health Care in 31 OECD Countries

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This study assesses the potential of the concept of "mortality amenable to health care" as an indicator of outcome for health care systems. It presents estimates of the mortality amenable to health care in 31 OECD countries for the period 1997-2007. It measures the sensitivity of this indicator to the list of death causes considered to be "amenable to care" by comparing results obtained from two leading lists. It then presents the advantages of this indicator over indicators of general more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 13, 2012

Effective Ways to Realise Policy Reforms in Health Systems

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Sometimes it is argued that the content of a reform is less important in determining whether or not it receives public and legislative approval than the timing of the proposal; the way in which the reform is presented; the discussions with stakeholders; and a multitude of other factors. The OECD has a crosscutting project on these issues, entitled Making Reform Happen. A number of OECD directorates are considering the factors lying behind successful implementation of reforms in their different more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 13, 2012

Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero - and Perhaps Less

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After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants - most of whom came illegally - the net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped and may have reversed. The standstill appears to be the result of many factors, including the weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets, heightened border enforcement, a rise in deportations, the growing dangers associated with illegal border crossings, the long-term decline in Mexico’s birth rates and broader economic more...

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D C on May 01, 2012

Security issues and immigration flows

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Mexican immigration figures have reached its lowest point since 2000. Yet, even if as a whole the US is receiving less Mexican migrants, the opposite is true for cities at the border. In this paper, the author presents evidence to show that this sui generis migration pattern cannot be understood using traditional explanations of migration dynamics. Instead, Mexicans are migrating because of security issues, fearing drug related violence and extortion, which has spiked since 2008. The author more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 08, 2012

International Dialogue on Migration N°18 - Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration

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This publication contains the report and supplementary materials of a workshop on “Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration”, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 29–30 March 2011. The workshop identified some of the main areas in which governments and institutions may need to reinforce their capacities to manage the complex interactions between climate change and environmental degradation and human mobility. The following four main areas for capacity-building received more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 03, 2012

Stopping the Destructive Spread of Small Arms

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The proliferation of small arms and light weapons is an immediate security challenge to individuals, societies, and states around the world and an enormous hurdle to sustainable security and development. As shown in this report, the Horn of Africa exemplifies the challenges the proliferation of small arms and light weapons pose for sustainable regional security and development. Somalia is the quintessential failed state that illustrates the cost of small arms and light weapons proliferation and more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 08, 2012

Cleaning Up Urban Bus Fleets

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This document provides information and resources to policy makers in developing and transition countries on key steps that can be taken to clean up the emissions from bus fleets. The focus of this report is on bus fleets but the strategies detailed here can also be applied to reducing emissions from other heavy-duty diesel vehicles that operate within developing and transition countries including refuse trucks, dump trucks, or highway maintenance vehicles. A brief introduction is also provided more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 07, 2012

International Dialogue on Migration N°19 - Economic Cycles, Demographic Change and Migration

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On 12 and 13 September 2011, IOM held a workshop on “Economic Cycles, Demographic Change and Migration” in Geneva, Switzerland as part of its annual International Dialogue on Migration (IDM). A guiding theme of the workshop was the notion that migration is inevitable and essential for economic growth and competitiveness given the global and regional labour market and demographic trends. The present report categorizes the experiences, policies and practices highlighted by participants at the more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 03, 2012

TABLE T5: NEW LIVING-WAGE GAPS 1996–2009 –IN PURCHASING POWER PARITY TERMS (PPPS)– VIS-À-VIS THE U.S. FOR ALL MANUFACTURING EMPLOYEES FOR THE FOUR LARGEST ECONOMIES IN THE AMERICAS (CANADA, BRAZIL, MEXICO AND ARGENTINA)

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The equalisation indices of hourly compensation costs for all manufacturing sector workers (AMWs) (blue & white collar) in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, recorded an erosion of real wages and, thus, a widening of their wage gaps vis-à-vis equivalent U.S. workers with respect to 2008..

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Álvaro de Regil Castilla on May 04, 2012

¡TABLA T5: NUEVAS BRECHAS DE SALARIOS DIGNOS 1996-2009 –EN TÉRMINOS DE PARIDADES DE PODER DE COMPRA (PPCS)– RESPECTO A LOS DE EUA PARA TODOS LOS EMPLEADOS DE MANUFACTURA PARA LAS CUATRO PRINCIPALES ECONOMÍAS DE AMÉRICA (CANADÁ, BRASIL, MÉXICO Y ARGENTINA)!

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Los índices de homologación de los costos de compensación por hora para todos los trabajadores del sector manufacturero (TSMs) (empleados y obreros) en Canadá, México, Brasil y Argentina, registraron un deterioro de los salarios reales y, por tanto, una ampliación de sus brechas salariales en relación a los trabajadores equivalentes de EUA con respecto a 2008.

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Álvaro de Regil Castilla on May 04, 2012

The role of Mexico in the G20

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From the very beginning of the G20, Mexico has promoted the enhancement of its role as a representative, inclusive and effective forum for taking and implementing economic and financial decisions in a world where the international economy is increasingly interdependent and multipolar. As John Kirton has suggested, the G20 is “the culmination of an expansion of the center of global governance to include ascending powers alongside advanced ones, and to give each equal, institutionalized more...

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D C on March 29, 2012

MEXICO AND LIVING WAGES: THE UTMOST EPITOMIZATION OF SOCIAL DARWINISM AS A SYSTEMIC PUBLIC POLICY

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The policies undemocratically imposed by the governments entrenched in power for the past thirty years provide irrefutable testimony of their deliberate transformation of Mexican workers into labour-bondage disposable items.This assessment arrives at a paramount conclusion: there is a deliberate policy in place to pauperise Mexico’s work force, to serve as a source of the most competitive labour cost possible in the neoliberal globalised division of labour. Such conclusion is the result of more...

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Álvaro de Regil Castilla on May 01, 2012

Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development

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Governments at both ends of the migration cycle increasingly recognize the value of diasporas’ spontaneous engagements with their countries of origin and are seeking ways to cooperate with them. Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development, a project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), offers policymakers and practitioners a user-friendly and practical guide on the state of the art in governmental diaspora initiatives. more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 02, 2012

Climate Change Performance Index 2012

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The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) aims at enhancing transparency of national and international efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Due to data limitation, this publication only covers emissions from CO2 emissions arising from the use of fossil fuels.The index aims is to encourage political and social pressure on those countries which have, up to now, failed to take ambitious actions on climate protection as well as to highlight countries with best-practice climate policies. more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 03, 2012

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