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...
Natural disasters in Mexico have been increasing in frequency and severity in recent years, and the events recorded have had drastic impacts on agriculture. Component for the attention of natural disasters...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
To achieve higher growth and reduce poverty and inequality, Mexico needs to improve public service delivery. Mexico is a middle-income country with continuing high levels of poverty (46.2 percent of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This brief on the performance evaluation framework as a tool for the Mexican Congress posits that the introduction of performance information and management systems in the budget process presents both...
Under a new output-based disbursement scheme, the government of the state of Guanajuato is focusing on achieving performance standards in the water sector - funding for the service providers is linked...