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The new government has set an ambitious course of economic and social reforms. Much progress has already been made. Yet productivity remains insufficient and more needs to be done to strengthen institutions.
CV and photo of Angel Gurría who has been the OECD Secretary-General since 1 June 2006.
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Angel Gurría, Secretario general designado de la OCDE.
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Informality has important implications for productivity, economic growth, and the inequality of income. In recent years, the extent of informal employment has increased in many of Mexico's states, though highly heterogeneously.
Legal systems provide the basic institutions for firms and markets to operate. Their quality can have important consequences on the size distribution of firms, who rely on them for contract enforcement. This paper uses the variation in legal system quality across states in Mexico to examine the relationship between judicial quality and firm size.
We are confident that these two reports will help Mexico to strengthen its environmental and water policies in favour of a better quality of life for Mexico’s citizens and a cleaner planet, said A. Gurría.
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Este foro tiene por objeto contribuir al debate sobre los cambios que México requiere implementar con urgencia para recuperar su productividad, su competitividad, las oportunidades y el tiempo perdidos, dijo el Secretario General de la OCDE, Angel Gurría.
Mexico is faced with difficult trade-offs as it pursues its economic, social and environmental goals. Like other emerging economies Mexico is balancing the need to protect its natural resources with the need to address high levels of income inequality and poverty.
Mexico’s river basins are under severe water stress. The quality of rivers, lakes and aquifers is declining and floods, droughts, and hurricanes are more frequent. These are some of the alerts signaled in OECD’s Making Water Reform Happen in Mexico.
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En este momento de metamorfosis mundial, los países deben aprovechar esta crisis, que ya está entrando a su quinto año, para replantear y fortalecer sus marcos regulatorios, sus instituciones y su crecimiento. La única forma de consolidar la recuperación y de lograr esta transformación es aplicando una serie de cambios en tres frentes paralelos: lo ESTRUCTURAL, lo SOCIAL y lo VERDE, dijo Angel Gurría.
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