Mexico: Selected Issues

December 9, 2005

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Mexico: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 23, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper considers the “informal sector” in Mexico. In Mexico and many other countries, the informal sector represents a large share of total employment. The paper reviews the literature on informality, with special focus on findings for Mexico, and develops a theoretical model that highlights the importance of externalities and the distortion associated with the informal sector. The analysis provides insight into the kinds of policy measures that might sustainably reduce the size of the informal sector. The paper analyzes financial saving in Mexico.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Credit, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Government securities, Money, National accounts, Private savings, Securities markets

Keywords: Bank credit, Bank lending, CR, Credit, East Asia, External saving, Firm, Global, Government securities, Informal firm, ISCR, Lending, Private saving, Private savings, Saving, Saving rate, Securities markets

Publication Details

Pages:

114
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/428
Stock No:

1MEXEA2005002
ISBN:

9781451825657
ISSN:

1934-7685

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