A setenta años de su fundación, El Colegio de México publica esta serie de dieciséis volúmenes, titulada Los grandes problemas de México, en la que se analizan los mayores retos de la realidad mexicana contemporánea, con el fin de definir los desafíos que enfrentamos en el siglo XXI y proponer algunas posibles respuestas y estrategias para resolver nuestros problemas como nación. Serie: Los grandes problemas de México. Vol. IX Crecimiento económico y equidad, se propone analizar los efecto...

Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate, edited by Hari Bansha Dulal, is a work which discuss...

Esta obra se divide en dos grandes apartados. Los temas de educación, salud y trabajo se estudian en relación con la dinámica poblacional y la cohesión social; en tanto que los procesos políticos latinoamericanos se exploran desde temáticas específicas como las reformas judiciales, la transición y calidad de la democracia, la evolución de las reglas electorales y sus efectos en la representación política; la noción de ciudadanía, o bien, desde el nuevo constitucionalismo regional y sus con...

Este volumen repasa las estrategias de desarrollo económico seguidas en la región durante las últimas seis décadas, para después concentrarse en el análisis de temas como las ventajas y desventajas de las estrategias de industrialización por medio de la sustitución de importaciones y de reformas promercado; los distintos tipos de estrategias de integración regional; la lucha por abatir la desigualdad y la pobreza de ingreso; o el crecimiento económico y su relación con el deterioro ambient...

The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was expected to signal the beginning of a new era of close co-operation between Mexico and the United States. Subsequent events, however, have introduced new tensions into the relationship. The 1995 economic collapse in Mexico sharply curtailed economic growth and lowered the demand for U.S. exports. The result has been a substantial deficit in U.S. trade with Mexico and renewed arguments that trade with Mexico reduces the empl...

The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents a historic change in relations among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The effect of the agreement on the three economies has generated controversy and some degree of alarm within each country.In this book, noted trade and development experts review the available literature on the effects of NAFTA on the three member countries and the world trading system. They evaluate how NAFTA will affect areas such as econo...

The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks. They have little or no access to public social insurance, are unlikely to save in adequate amounts to rely fully on self-insurance or informal insurance, face restricted access to private market insurance or credit mechanisms, and have little or no political voice to demand the protection of safety net programs. In this book, the authors analyze the best ways to help the poor manage risks such as health shocks,...

The World Bank has partnered with the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University to implement their diagnostic tool—the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Assessment—designed to assess how taxation and public expenditures affect income inequality, poverty, and different economic groups. The approach relies on comprehensive fiscal incidence analysis, which measures the contribution of each individual intervention to poverty and inequality reduction as well as the combined impact of taxes a...

Adopting a structuralist approach, this informative book discusses the international obstacles to economic growth and the role of individual sectors including manufacturing and services in political economies. It also examines key issues, such as the determinants of economic growth through capital accumulation and technological change.Leading experts shed light on the importance of aggregate demand in relation to trade and capital flows, addressing socio-economic inequality and reg...