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View Resource Promised and actual benefits in mexican social security fot rhe transtion generation

Este artículo presenta un conjunto de mediciones de los costos y beneficios reales del plan general de retiro por jubilación proporcionado a los ciudadanos por parte del Sistema Mexicano de Pensiones (SMP), que son necesarias para evaluar las decisiones de los trabajadores en cuanto a la contribución a la seguridad social (es decir, trabajar en el sector formal) y al retiro. El SMP ofrece dos...

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View Resource Review of the 2010 World Health Report. Health system financing

The document that was presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2011 sets forth a series of proposals to encourage member countries to achieve universal health coverage. These proposals are presented in detail and are based both on world statistics and case studies.

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View Resource A simple poverty scorecard for Mexico

This study uses Mexico's 2008 National Household Survey of Income and Expenditure to I construct an easy-to-use scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a household has income below a given poverty line. The scorecard uses ten simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify. Poverty scores can be computed on paper in the field in about five to ten minutes. The scorecard's...

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View Resource The health insurance reform in the Netherlands and its relevance for Mexico

Alrededor del mundo se observan dos versiones de la organización de los seguros de salud; la seguridad social basada en el empleo, y los servicios nacionales de salud. En Latinoamérica regularmente se usa la primera, pero se está lejos de lograr la cobertura universal. En los Países Bajos encontramos una peculiar mezcla de obligaciones públicas y responsabilidades privadas. La cobertura universal...

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View Resource Analysis of the use of financial services by companies in Mexico: What does the 2009 Economic Census tell us?

We present a descriptive analysis of the results of Mexico's 2009 Economic Census regarding the use of bank credit and accounts by productive entities (companies). INEGI was requested to prepare a set of statistics regarding various company characteristics that are relevant to the decisions made by institutions offering banking services. Information was grouped according to company size and to...

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View Resource Book review. Violence and social orders: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history, by Douglas C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast

Why societies differ in their level of violence? This is the question addressed by North, Wallis, and Weingast. To provide an answer they must develop a rich theory of how individuals and organizations that compose a human group voluntarily surrender their will to act violently in exchange for participating in a society with improved conditions for the creation and conservation of wealth.

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View Resource Book review. The economics of crime: lessons for and from Latina America, by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky

The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America makes an important contribution to the study of crime and violence in Latin America and to the debate about what works for reducing crime (and at what cost?). As the title of the book correctly suggests, the book brings together contributions from Latin American economists on the determinants and consequences of crime, as well as...

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View Resource Economic and socio-demographic determinants of crime in Uruguay

This study estimates a panel data model to analyze the economic and socio-demographic determinants of crime in Uruguay across the 19 Uruguayan departments in the period 1986-2006. This research has two components: i) to present a systematic analysis of the Uruguayan crime data and socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the population, and ii) to evaluate the empirical significance...

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View Resource Different worlds, common roots a multilevel analysis of youth violence and delinquency in the netherlands antilles as a basis for crime prevention

Most research on the prevalence, determinants, and variations of violence and delinquency among youngsters is conducted in Western societies. This multilevel study is set in the Netherlands Antilles (NA) and aims to build up prognostic multilevel models as a basis for targeted crime prevention in a non-western area. Data were collected from a sample of adolescente in the NA. Non-hierarchical and...

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View Resource Crime and labor market, choice under uncertainty model and an application for colombian cities

Este trabajo ofrece un modelo para determinar la función de oferta del crimen con base en la teoría de la elección en condiciones de incertidumbre. Con base en el problema de un agente que maximiza su utilidad sujeto a las restricciones del mercado legal e ilegal, este estudio intenta explicar la oferta de la delincuencia como función de la distribución de los salarios y el equivalente cierto de...

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View Resource Introduction (On the studies presented at the International Conference on "Delinquency and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean")

Crime has become the leading concern for citizens of the region and has been pushed to the forefront of the international policy agenda; what is more, the combination of very few success stories and abundant failures in curbing crime and violence has underscored how thin our understanding is and the difficulty of designing and implementing an effective strategy at the local level. This issue...

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View Resource Protecting vulnerable children from uninsured risks: adapting conditional cash transfer programs to provide broader safety nets

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have proved to be effective in inducing chronic poor households to invest in the human capital of their children while helping reduce poverty. They have also protected child human capital from the shocks that affect these households. In this paper, we argue that many non-poor households exposed to uninsured shocks have to use children as risk coping...

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View Resource Mainstreaming natural disaster risk management into social protection policies (and vice versa) in Latina America and the Caribbean

This paper presents and applies the social risk management (SRM) conceptual framework to examine links between disaster risk, hazards, vulnerability, risk management, and social protection (SP). The paper makes the case that it is important to mainstream social protection policies into the disaster risk management (DRM) agenda and, vice versa as a means to improve household and community...

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View Resource Introduction (On the issues addressed by this issue of the journal)

Micro and small-sized enterprises (MSE) have a central role in economic development in Latin America given their large contribution to employment generation, their share in the total number of firms and, to a lesser extent, their contribution to gross domestic product. Yet, their production is mainly oriented to the domestic market and they are characterized by an increasing productivity gap with...

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View Resource MSMES in Costa Rica: Chronicle of their poor integration in times of accelerated international integration

El presente documento, está centrado en las Mipyme y en las políticas públicas para su fomento en la economía costarricense. El análisis, se hace a partir de un enfoque alternativo de clasificación de las actividades económicas, el cual permite precisar con mayor detalle las desigualdades entre las actividades tradicionales de amplia trayectoria en la economía, de aquellas actividades que han...

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View Resource Gerencia y economía de los servicios de salud: diplomado a distancia [2003, Pachuca]. Material de estudio. Tomo I

Contenido: Volúmen 1 ¿En qué consiste y cómo debo usar mi material didáctico? ¿Cómo está conformado el Diplomado? Módulo I. Planteamiento de la reforma sectorial. Tema 1. Características de la reforma en salud en América Latina / Claudia Juárez Ruiz. Tema 2. Reflexiones sobre la reforma del sector salud / Sergio H. Del Prete. Tema 3. Reforma económica o reforma sanitaria. El "ruido" privatizador...

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View Resource Desarrollo de competencias de gestión en los seguros sociales: curso semipresencial : material de estudio

Módulo I. Gestión de políticas sociales / Sergio Horis del Prete. Tema 1. ¿Universalismo o focalización? El dilema de gestión de la política social. Tema 2. Economía de la política social. Instrumento de gestión para la eficacia social. Tema 3. La evaluación de opciones y el análisis económico en la política social. Tema 4. Informalidad laboral, exclusión y políticas sociales alternativas. Los...

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View Resource Racionalización del costo de la atención médica. Tercer seminario

Contenido: Racionalización del costo de la atención médica. Análisis factorial del costo. Atención primaria en salud. Autoatención. Niveles de atención. Regionalización. APENDICE "A": Conferencias Relativas al Marco Socioeconómico de la Seguridad Social y la Racionalización del Costo de la Atención Médica. Contexto Socioeconómico y Político en que surge la Seguridad Social en Europa y en América...

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View Resource Memoria del Curso Protección Social a la población rural, del 10 de agosto al 4 de septiembre

El Centro Interamericano de Estudios de Seguridad Social llevó a cabo el curso de Protección Social a la Población Rural con miras de capacitar a funcionarios de las instituciones de seguridad social americanas así como a entidades o instituciones latinoamericanas interesadas en este tipo de protección. Al conocerse el alcance de la protección que los países están suministrando, unida a la...

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View Resource Acta de la XXXIV Reunión del Comité Permanente Interamericano de Seguridad Social

Contenido: Participantes. Sesión única. Presidium y quorum. Acta de la XXXIII Reunión del CPISS. Informe y programa 1991 de la Secretaria General de la CISS. 1 Introducción. 2 Nuevas Autoridades de la CISS. 3 Acción de las CASS. 4 Acción del CIESS. 5 Relación con otros Organismos Internacionales. 6 Cooperación Técnica Horizontal. 7 Sistema de Información de la Seguridad Social Americana. 8...

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