Document Type: Environmental and Social Assessment,Social Assessment,Environmental Assessment Report No.: Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Alves Da Cunha,Maria Do Socorro Disclosure Status: Disclosed

A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. ... See More + This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a large fiscal transfer fund earmarked for social investment in more than 2,000 Mexican municipalities. Results show a positive but modest effect on the average household income, and positive effects on seven nonmonetary welfare measures. In contrast, these funds have no significant impact on extreme and moderate monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational governments.  See Less -

Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9209 Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos; Cadena,Kiyomi E.; Moreno Herrera,Laura Liliana Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Environmental and Social Review Summary Report No.: ESRSA00699 Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Collin Dit De Montesson,Nicolas Antoine Robert Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Environmental and Social Commitment Plan Report No.: Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Collin Dit De Montesson,Nicolas Antoine Robert Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. ... See More + This paper takes advantage of a database that is unusual by developing-country standards by means of leveraging the richness of five rounds of the Mexican Manufacturing Census between 1994 and 2014. The data allow estimation of the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (on a 0-100 scale), a measure of market concentration, explains an increase by 1 percent in the total factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries, while its impact on productivity varies by level of exposure to international markets. The results here show that the effect of greater exposure to trade offsets and, in most cases, reverses the negative effects of local concentration on productivity. These results are robust to specifications based on the estimation of firm productivity using the panels of establishment data from the 2009 and 2014 rounds of the economic census, to controlling for a proxy of markups, and to the use of alternate indicators of local industry concentration.  See Less -

Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9210 Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos; Lopez-Calva,Luis-Felipe; Barriga Cabanillas,Oscar Eduardo Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Procurement Plan Report No.: STEP32276 Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Gillian Golah Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Project Information Document Report No.: PIDA29031 Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Collin Dit De Montesson,Nicolas Antoine Robert Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Procurement Plan Report No.: STEP32258 Document Date: APR 09, 2020

Author: Hugo Vargas Quispe Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Procurement Plan Report No.: STEP32223 Document Date: APR 08, 2020

Author: Alvaro F Guzman Lucero Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Project Paper Report No.: RES41221 Document Date: APR 08, 2020

Author: Yanez Pagans,Monica Disclosure Status: Disclosed