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Since the last edition of our publication MacroDev Semestrial in February 2023, international economic developments have remained eventful and intense, against the backdrop of the continued global geopolitical reconfiguration. They are not without consequences for emerging and developing...

In Mexico, the "Metis" project, through the painting promote the protection of biodiversity. Launched in 2021 by Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Metis fund promotes better integration of the arts and culture into official development assistance. This financial mechanism...

Mexico has some of the highest inequality levels and lowest social mobility rates in the world, with a growing distance between high-income individuals and the rest of the population. This social rigidity leads to ‘opportunity hoarding’, as people from disadvantaged backgrounds enjoy fewer...

Social mobility is low in Mexico: inequality of wealth is highly persistent across generations; and about half of people from very poor households remain poor throughout their lifetimes. Moreover, according to a new study, an individual’s chances of moving up the social ladder are strongly...

For 10 years, AFD has supported the Mexican authorities in defining innovative models for the enhancement of territories and protection of biodiversity. Explanations and sharing of experiences with : Karla Barclay - Biodiversity project officer – AFD Mexico Sergio Graf - Secretary...

Despite evidence of high inequality and low social mobility throughout the world, there has been only limited demand for change. Using new survey and experimental data, we investigate how perceptions about inequality and social mobility affect preferences for redistribution in Mexico. In...

We run rank-rank regressions to estimate relative and absolute upward intergenerational social mobility of wealth in Mexico. At the national level, social mobility is low and the intergenerational persistence rate is high: 0.62. In terms of absolute upward mobility, those born in households at...

Since 2017, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and AFD, in partnership with the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), have been supporting the...

We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The in-cash transfer is found to significantly increase the probability of selecting vocational schools...

This paper simulates the medium- and long-term impact of proposed and expected energy policy on the environment and on the Mexican economy. The analysis has been conducted with a Multi-sector Macroeconomic Model for the Evaluation of Environmental and Energy policy (Three-ME). This model is well...

This document offers an empirical application of the notion of energy transition to the Mexican economy and it takes the next step of simulating medium- and long-term impacts of proposed and future energy and fiscal policy on the environment and the Mexican economy. The starting point of the...