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Inaccurate Public Perceptions of Inequality and Social Mobility in Mexico
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
Published in December 2020
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Wide Regional Differences in Social Mobility across Mexico
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
Published in December 2020
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Perceptions of Inequality and Social Mobility in Mexico
distribution, but they overestimate upward and downward mobility. Providing people with more information about observed income inequality and social mobility is one way to encourage a demand for redistribution. However, randomly providing selected participants with this information has almost zero effect on
Published in February 2020
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Social Mobility in Mexico. What Can We Learn from Its Regional Variation?
25th percentile reach, on average, the 35th percentile. At the regional level, the estimations show a clear north-south gradient: the children of poor parents show greater upward mobility with increasing distance from the south, the country’s poorest region. Notably, the opportunities to move up
Published in February 2020
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Getting to Net-Zero Emissions: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin American countries (Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina) in planning long-term decarbonization strategies, which contribute to the preparation of climate policies in line with the Paris Agreement.
The first phase of this project is nearing completion and a report on the initial
Published in December 2019
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Innovate for sanitation
In 2012 a call for proposals for FISONG projects was launched in the field of "Sanitation, hygiene and waste: long-term mechanisms and local capabilities” aiming at improving sanitation services in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs
Published in February 2019
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Evaluation of the « Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique » program: Methodological Aspects and Interim Assessment
This eight-country evaluation seeks to measure how the ELAN Program methods of written language acquisition have an impact, during the first two years of primary school (Grade 1 and Grade 2), on oral and written language performance in African languages (one language per country) and in French. A
Published in February 2017
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High School Track Choice and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Urban Mexico
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
Published in December 2016
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Transitioning towards a low-carbon economy in Mexico: an application of the ThreeME model
analysis is the ThreeME framework, a Multi-sectoral Macroeconomic Model based on Keynesian theory. It is designed to address the dynamics of global economic activity, energy system development and carbon emissions causing climate change. The ThreeME model is wellsuited for policy assessment purposes in
Published in November 2015
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Developing Lower Secondary Education: a Rural Issue and Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa
The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the year 2015 (Dakar declaration, Millennium Development Goals), will no doubt be reached by a number of
Published in October 2010
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