Mexico

Jobs define female power in the home

BASED on a study by a Dutch academic, this book attempts to analyse variations in female employment by examining a cross-section of different forms of production and estimating their impact on

Publication Date:

14/08/1993

Author(s): Anita Anand

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930815

pp:

0

Tags:

Industrial Workers, Women, Industry, Mexico, India

India

Ancient Mexican script yields up its secrets

A hieroglyphic script in which the earliest Central American texts were written has been partly deciphered, thanks to an engraved slab found by fisherfolk.

Publication Date:

14/06/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Fisherfolk, Science And Technology, History, Mexico, United States Of America (US)

Sanitation

Helping slum dwellers to help themselves

Involving the community in slum improvement has worked successfully in the Philippines and Mexico. Hidebound bureaucrats in the Third World, who insist they know best, should learn a lesson from these experiments.

Publication Date:

14/03/1993

Author(s): David Satterthwaite, Jorge E Hardoy

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19930315

pp:

0

Tags:

Health Effects, Slums, Squatter Settlement, Sanitation, Philippines, Mexico, South America, Developing Countries

Sanitation

Money Buys Least When Bureaucrats Spend It

Publication Date:

14/03/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19930315

pp:

0

Tags:

Health Effects, Slums, Squatter Settlement, Sanitation, Philippines, Mexico, South America, Developing Countries

Industry

Free trade pact raises environmental fears

A common market linking Mexico, the United States and Canada could very well result in US firms heading north or south to escape strict pollution control standards

Publication Date:

29/09/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, Canada, Industry, Mexico, United States Of America (US)

Water Resources

Utilization of waters of the Colorado and the Tijuana rivers and of the Rio Grande: treaty between the United States of America and Mexico

Whereas treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers, and of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, was signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries in Washington on February 3, 1944, and a protocol suppl

Publication Date:

14/11/1944

Source: United States Government Printing Office

Tags:

Water Disputes, Rivers, Colorado, United States Of America (US), Mexico, Gulf Of Mexico