About the editors -- Figures, Tables and Box -- Figures -- Chapter 1 -- 1.1 Public sector revenue and expenditure (1980-2009) -- 1.2 The public sector budget balances (1980-2009) -- 1.3 Financial Requirements of the Public Sector (FRPS) (1990-2008) -- 1.4 Total public expenditure (1980-2009) -- 1.5 Latin American Index of Budgetary Transparency (results for Mexico) -- 1.6 Inflation rate and economic growth (1980-2009) -- 1.7 Economic growth and employment in micro-enterprises as a share of total urban employment (1993-2004) -- 1.8 Index of average real wages in manufacturing and the real minimum wage (1980-2007) -- Chapter 2 -- 2.1 Total government deficits as a percentage of GDP -- 2.2 Federal Funds Rate (1960-2009) -- 2.3 Unemployment: current and prior recessions -- 2.4 Index of productivity and hourly compensation of production and non-supervisory workers (1959-2008) -- 2.5 Good jobs, as a share of total employment (1979-2006) -- Chapter 3 -- 3.1 Public expenditure on social development and economic development -- 3.2 Per capita social expenditure in Latin America -- 3.3 Public expenditure on health and education in Mexico -- 3.4 Trends in real per capita public health spending in Latin America -- 3.5 Under-five child mortality rates in Latin America -- 3.6 Maternal mortality rates in Latin American countries -- 3.7 Underspending in Mexico's public health sector -- 3.8 Affiliation to the Popular Insurance among rural uninsured -- 3.9 Distribution of Popular Insurance accredited medical units across states -- 3.10 Anti-poverty expenditure -- 3.11 Chronic undernourishment in children aged under five, by region (1988-2006) -- 3.12 Chronic undernourishment in children under five, by income deciles (1999-2006) -- 3.13 Chronic undernourishment among indigenous and non-indigenous children (1988-2006) -- 3.14 Open Budget Index 2008.

3.15 Index of participation in the budgetary process, selected Latin American countries (2007 and 2009) -- Chapter 4 -- 4.1 Federal government outlays by function, percentage of GDP (1980-2009) -- 4.2 Public social expenditure as a percentage of GDP (2007) -- 4.3 Public social expenditure as a percentage of GDP (1980-2007) -- 4.4 Public social expenditure per head, at constant prices and constant PPPs, in 2000 US (1980-2007) -- 4.5 Expenditure on Medicare and Medicaid as share of GDP (1980-2008) -- 4.6 US per capita public health expenditure in 2008 dollars (1980-2008) -- 4.7 Percentage of US population covered by different types of health insurance -- 4.8 Per capita public expenditure on health, US PPP (1980-2008) -- 4.9 Infant mortality (deaths per 1,000 live births), United States -- 4.10 Maternal mortality (deaths per 100,000 live births), United States -- 4.11 Insurance coverage of non-elderly population by race and ethnicity (2009) -- 4.12 Uninsured rates by citizenship status (2009) -- 4.13 Percentage of people without insurance by race/ethnicity -- 4.14 Percentage of people without insurance by sex -- 4.15 Infant mortality rate by race and ethnicity (infant deaths per 1,000 live births) -- 4.16 Maternal mortality rate by race and ethnicity (deaths per 100,000 live births) -- 4.17 Age-adjusted death rates by race/ethnicity (per 100,000 population) -- 4.18 Five-year relative cancer survival rates for selected cancer sites by race and sex -- 4.19 Selected indicators of utilization of health resources by race (2009) -- 4.20 Trends in prevalence of food insecurity in US households -- 4.21 US households with food insecurity by various household characteristics -- 4.22 US households with very low food security by various household characteristics -- Chapter 5 -- 5.1 Structure of public sector revenue (2008).

5.2 Oil revenues of the public sector as a percentage of GDP -- 5.3 Federal government revenue (1980-2008) (as a percentage of GDP) -- 5.4 Income tax (ISR), VAT and royalties as a percentage of total government revenue -- 5.5 Government revenue (1986-2008) -- 5.6 Tax revenue by type of tax (1980-2007) -- 5.7 Structure of income tax collection -- 5.8 Tax revenue in OECD countries, America and Mexico (2004) -- 5.9 Share of property tax in GDP -- 5.10 Monetary income distribution by decile (1998-2006) -- 5.11 Income tax contribution and tax incidence by decile -- 5.12 VAT: share and incidence by income groups (2002) -- 5.13 Incidence of VAT taxation by income decile (1984-2004) -- 5.14 Fiscal and tax information requested by IFAI -- 5.15 Civil penalties for fiscal lawbreaking -- 5.16 Tax evasion and avoidance in Mexico (2003) -- Chapter 6 -- 6.1 Total tax revenue as percentage of GDP: United States . -- 6.2 Total tax revenue as percentage of GDP (1975-2007): country comparison -- 6.3 Percentage composition of tax receipts by source (1960-2006) -- 6.4 Corporate versus personal share of federal income tax -- 6.5 Incidence of US federal taxes by household income group (1960, 2004) -- 6.6 Comparing average incidence of different state and local taxes on household income of different household groups -- 6.7 Incidence of state and local taxes on household income of different household groups (2007, all states) -- 6.8 Average changes in state and local taxes as shares of income (1989-2007, all states) -- 6.9 Distribution of family income by race -- 6.10 Poverty rates of families by race and presence of workers in female-headed households (2008) -- 6.11 Ratio of black and Hispanic to white median family income (average of all households) -- 6.12 Ratio of black and Hispanic to white median family income (by type of household).

6.13 Income tax deductions, compared to income, individuals and businesses -- 6.14 Audits of corporations -- 6.15 Number of civil penalties against corporations -- Chapter 7 -- 7.1 PROCAMPO programme, 1994-2007: total budget, producers supported, hectares of land supported -- 7.2 PROCAMPO programme, 1994-2007: support per producer and per hectare -- 7.3 Structure of exports in Mexico (1980-2007) -- 7.4 Jobs and wages in the clothing industry in Mexico (1988-2004) -- 7.5 Jobs and wages in the auto parts industry in Mexico (1988-2004) -- 7.6 Manufacturing sector in Mexico: productivity versus real wages (1988-2004) -- 7.7 Monthly real wages in Mexico: agriculture versus manufacturing sector (1988-2004) -- 7.8 Men's and women's real monthly salaries in the export maquila sector (1997-2006) -- 7.9 Monthly real wages in the export maquila sector (1980-2006) -- 7.10 Employment in the export maquila sector (1980-2006) -- 7.11 CPI variation (1994-2008) -- 7.12 Food expenditure as a share of monetary current income of households, by deciles (2000-06) -- 7.13 General inflation and food inflation, compared to minimum wage -- Chapter 10 -- 10.1 Share of households covered by private pension plans -- 10.2 Share of pension participants primarily in defined contribution plans (1975-98) -- 10.3 Share of pension participants in defined contribution and defined benefit plans (1980-2004) -- 10.4 Poverty rate among elderly Americans -- Tables -- 1.1 Macroeconomic indicators (1993-2009) -- 1.2 Structure of employment by type of contract, 1995, 2000, 2007 -- 1.3 National poverty lines as a percentage of the minimum wage (1992-2008) -- 3.1 Registered maternal deaths at the sub-national level -- 3.2 Shares of public expenditure by deciles (2000) -- 3.3 Health spending by group -- 3.4 Distribution of population by insurance and locality (2005).

3.5 Social security entitlements among the indigenous and nonindigenouspopulation, 2005 -- 3.6 Distribution of maternal deaths in the country -- 3.7 Undernourishment of children aged under five -- 4.1 Health expenditure indicators: selected high-income countries -- 4.2 Life expectancy indicators: selected high-income countries -- 4.3 Healthcare indicators for eight industrialized countries -- 5.1 Mexico: tax revenue as percentage of GDP -- 7.1 NAALC's labour principles -- 7.2 Imports as a share of the domestic consumption of staple foods, Mexico (1990-2005) -- 7.3 Average CPI of selected products with reference to the general index (1980-2008) -- 8.1 NAFTA trade-related job displacement, 1993-2004: analysis by social group -- 9.1 Total number of pensions granted by IMSS and ISSSTE -- 9.2 The changing qualification conditions for an IMSS pension -- 9.3 Active labour force and social security access, disaggregated by age, education and gender -- Box -- 5.1 Eliminating explict gender bias in personal income tax (PIT) -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Economic Policies and Human Rights Obligations -- Dialogue between human rights advocates and progressive economists -- Clarification of human rights obligations -- Key principles in meeting obligations regarding economic and social rights -- Evaluating economic policies in the light of human rights obligations -- Key findings -- Holding governments to account -- Changing the way that economists evaluate policies -- Notes -- References -- 1  

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