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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Why Is Mexico Important? -- Literature Review -- The Case for the Mexican TCOs as an Insurgency -- The Case Against the Mexican TCOs as an Insurgency -- Defining Insurgency/Methodology -- The Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations -- The Mexican Government Strategy -- Mérida Initiative -- Are the TCOs insurgents? -- Political Mobilization -- Nature and Type of Violence -- Legitimacy -- Area Control -- Colombia Case Study Comparison -- The Colombian Drug Cartels -- The M-19 -- The ELN -- The FARC -- The AUC -- Plan Colombia and Counterinsurgency -- Operational Relevance of Colombia Case Study -- Analysis on Mexico -- Conclusion -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER -- Appendix 1 -- Bibliography.

We examine the role that informal sector employment plays in poverty reduction using data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). Using a Shapley decomposition approach, wefind that government transfers and formal sector jobs are the dominant drivers of aggregate poverty reduction. Informal sector jobs currently play a limited role in poverty reduction at the national level. This is primarily driven by the fact that there are relatively few informal sector jobs compared to formal sector jobs. On a per-job basis, the poverty reduction associated with formal sector jobs and informal sector jobs is quite similar. The poverty reduction associated with one informal sector job is generally between 50 to 100 per cent of the poverty reduction associated with one formal sector job (depending on the poverty measure, poverty line and year chosen). Therefore, from a poverty reduction standpoint, policy makers are encouraged to view job gains and losses in the informal sector approximately on par with gains and losses of formal sector jobs.