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  • Mexico - Health Financing Profile (English)

    Mexico is one of the largest countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region with a population of 113 million. GDP per capita is high by regional standards at over US$10,000. Poverty and socioeconomic...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 89376 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Class,Deena Marie,Rajkumar,Andrew Sunil,Cavagnero,Eleonora Del Valle

  • Strengthening a successful public-private partnership (English)

    Agriculture plays an important role in Mexico, particularly in employment and the food security of rural households. Although employment in agriculture has declined over the past 10 years (from 18 percent...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 88097 Document Date: October 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Fondos : Mexico's unique agricultural mutual insurance funds (English)

    The first agricultural insurance program in Mexico began in 1942 and was based on arrangements between mutual unions and private insurance companies. Fondos, or farmer mutual insurance funds, developed...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 88099 Document Date: October 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • SAB basic crop insurance : a successful public-private partnership (English)

    The State of Sinaloa faced particularly dramatic damage, emerging from the growing season. In the face of challenges, the Government sought a more robust system that will provide adequate agriculture insurance...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 88098 Document Date: October 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Mexico reform agenda for inclusive and sustainable growth (English)

    This note presents an overview of Mexico's forthcoming reform agenda-from the World Bank's vantage point. It distills the main messages in the policy notes that make up this compendium. The purpose is...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76575 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Labor markets for inclusive growth (English)

    This policy note outlines short, and medium-term policy options for addressing critical challenges affecting labor markets in Mexico, and in particular labor productivity. As labor is the main source of...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76587 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Managing medium-term fiscal challenges (English)

    Mexico needs a comprehensive fiscal reform to alleviate the looming medium-term pressures on its budget. This policy note contributes to the debate on Mexico's looming fiscal challenges. The country's...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76591 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Using natural resources in an optimal way (English)

    To ensure sustainable and optimal use of its common property natural resources, Mexico will need to strengthen its focus on enhancing stewardship in three key sectors-forests, water, and energy resources...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76590 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Toward a more competitive business environment (English)

    Strengthening competition and streamlining key regulations for firms are key to increasing Mexico's competitiveness. Firm-level productivity and business entry for formal enterprises in Mexico are low...

    Document Type: Report No.: 76585 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Promoting an integral social protection system (English)

    This note reviews the challenges in Mexico’s social protection system and possible options to achieve an integral and effective system that is more than the sum of its parts. Mexico’s social protection...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76588 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Reducing the footprint of growth (English)

    Reducing the footprint of growth requires a focus on three key issues: a) transforming urban areas into greener, more efficient, resilient, and socially inclusive cities, better able to capture the economic...

    Document Type: Report No.: 76589 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Strengthening subnational public finance (English)

    Mexico's intergovernmental transfer system needs to reduce vertical imbalances and discretionary federal transfers. This note assesses Mexico's pending subnational fiscal reform agenda. Mexico is a federal...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76593 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Fostering sound financial sector development (English)

    This note outlines a short, to medium-term reform agenda to foster sound financial sector development. Mexico needs to broaden and deepen its financial system without compromising the financial stability...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76584 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Fostering innovation for productivity and competitiveness (English)

    This note provides a medium-term agenda for supporting Mexico's competitiveness by fostering greater innovation. Globalization and the dynamism of economies that compete with Mexico, particularly those...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 76586 Document Date: April 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Mexico reform agenda for inclusive and sustainable growth (English)

    Mexico needs to broaden and deepen its financial system without compromising the financial stability gains of the last decade. Much more private investment is needed to transform the economy to boost productivity...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 80627 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: