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Towards More Effective and Dynamic Public Management in Mexico
This public governance review of Mexico examines the regulatory framework in Mexico, explains how e-government could be used to find new approaches to old challenges, and looks at the challenge of professionalising public servants in Mexico.
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Water and politics : clientelism and reform in urban Mexico
\"Most of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Through the lens of urban water provision, this book shows how politicians fail to provide reliable and high quality public services because they often benefit politically from manipulating public service provision for electoral gain. In many young democracies, politicians exchange water service for votes or political support, attempting to reward allies or punish political enemies. Surprisingly, the political problem of water provision has become more pronounced in many young democracies, as water service represents a valuable political currency in resource-scarce environments. When do politicians forgo the clientelistic manipulation of water services and invest in programmatic and universal service provision? Water and Politics finds that middle-class and industrial elites play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms. Based on extensive field research and combining process tracing with a subnational comparative analysis of eight Mexican cities, Water and Politics constructs a framework for understanding the construction of universal service provision in these weak institutional settings\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mexico's National Auditing System
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the OECD review of Mexico’s national auditing system, with a focus on the Auditoria Superior de la Federación (ASF), the supreme audit institution. Reforms in Mexico have revamped the country’s institutional architecture and created several systems for strengthening accountability, integrity and transparency. The report highlights strategic considerations for the national auditing system and the ASF, examines the national and subnational dimensions of auditing in Mexico, and suggests ways for the ASF to enhance the impact and relevance of its work.
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Open Government Data in Mexico
This report analyses the progresses made by Mexico in implementing the recommendations of the OECD 2016 Open Government Data Review. It identifies areas for further improvement and proposes a set of policy recommendations in areas such as institutional governance, strategic leadership, policy ownership, monitoring and reporting, and digital skills. The report underscores how open data policy can contribute to government priorities such as anti-corruption and social inclusion, and government’s crucial role in creating the conditions and opportunities for innovation and collaboration. It also underlines the role that actors from the private and third-sector, journalists and the academia play in ensuring policy continuity and sustainability.
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Institutional design and organisation of the civil protection national system in Mexico: the case for a decentralised and participative policy network
Mexico established the Civil Protection National System (CPNS) following the disastrous 1985 earthquake that killed nearly 10,000 people and devastated large sections of Mexico City. The institutional design and structure of the CPNS embraced citizen demands for greater participation in the Federal government's disaster prevention and response programmes. The authors examine the Federal government's response to disasters since 1985 and conclude that the CPNS operates in a manner that is contrary to the precepts that shaped its design and structure. The authors conclude that orthodox beliefs and assumptions about disasters rationalise the current operations of the CPNS. They argue that a holistic perspective of disasters, rather than a change in institutional design and organisation, is required in order to operationalise intergovernmental cooperation and citizen participation. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Cornerstone at the Confluence
Signed on November 24, 1922, the Colorado River Compact is the
cornerstone of a proverbial pyramid-an elaborate body of laws
colloquially called the \"Law of the River\" that governs how human
beings use water from the river system dubbed the \"American Nile.\"
No fewer than forty million people have come to rely on the
Colorado River system in modern times-a river system immersed in an
unprecedented, unrelenting megadrought for more than two decades.
Attempting to navigate this \"new normal,\" policymakers are in the
midst of negotiating new management rules for the river system, a
process coinciding with the compact's centennial that must be
completed by 2026. Animated by this remarkable confluence of
events, Cornerstone at the Confluence leverages the
centennial year to reflect on the compact and broader \"Law of the
River\" to envision the future. It is a volume inviting dialogue
about how the Colorado River system's flows should be apportioned
given climate change, what should be done about environmental
issues such as ecosystem restoration and biodiversity protection,
and how long-standing issues of water justice facing Native
American communities should be addressed. In one form or another,
all these topics touch on the concept of \"equity\" embedded within
the compact-a concept that tees up what is perhaps the foundational
question confronted by Cornerstone at the Confluence: Who should
have a seat at the table of Colorado River governance?
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STRENGTHENING STATE CAPABILITIES
We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico.
Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job
offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to
measure applicants’ intellectual ability, personality, and motivation. This
allows the first experimental estimates of (1) the role of financial incentives
in attracting a larger and more qualified pool of applicants, (2) the elasticity
of the labor supply facing the employer, and (3) the role of job attributes
(distance, attractiveness of the municipal environment) in helping fill
vacancies, as well as the role of wages in helping fill positions in less
attractive municipalities. A theoretical model of job applications and
acceptance guides the empirical inquiry. We find that higher wages attract more
able applicants as measured by their IQ, personality, and proclivity toward
public sector work—that is, we find no evidence of adverse selection effects on
motivation; higher wage offers also increased acceptance rates, implying a labor
supply elasticity of around 2 and some degree of monopsony power. Distance and
worse municipal characteristics strongly decrease acceptance rates, but higher
wages help bridge the recruitment gap in worse municipalities.
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Evaluation of silver nanoparticles for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers: In vitro and in vivo
SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospital areas is of a particular concern, since the close interaction between health care personnel and patients diagnosed with COVID-19, which allows virus to be easily spread between them and subsequently to their families and communities. Preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare personnel is essential to reduce the frequency of infections and outbreaks during the pandemic considering that they work in high-risk areas. In this research, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were tested in vitro and shown to have an inhibitory effect on SARS-CoV-2 infection in cultured cells. Subsequently, we assess the effects of mouthwash and nose rinse with ARGOVIT ® silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 contagion in health workers consider as high-risk group of acquiring the infection in the General Tijuana Hospital, Mexico, a hospital for the exclusive recruitment of patients diagnosed with COVID-19. We present a prospective randomized study of 231 participants that was carried out for 9 weeks (during the declaration of a pandemic). The \"experimental\" group was instructed to do mouthwash and nose rinse with the AgNPs solution; the \"control\" group was instructed to do mouthwashes and nose rinse in a conventional way. The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was significantly lower in the \"experimental\" group (two participants of 114, 1.8%) compared to the \"control\" group (thirty-three participants of 117, 28.2%), with an 84.8% efficiency. We conclude that the mouth and nasal rinse with AgNPs helps in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health personnel who are exposed to patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
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