Top Stories published by pepe carlos blog in May of 2012

Seguro Popular by electoral section

The following map depicts the share of population enrolled in the Mexican public health program Seguro Popular (SP) in 2005. Up to that moment, the program had 7 million beneficiaries and in 2012 it has over 50 million. This is an effort to provide a universal health coverage to all the Mexican citizens.


Top 10% Economic institutions

IDEAS publishes a series of rankings of papers and academic institutions using metrics such as citations and the number of papers published. I like this methodology because it takes away some of the branding and prestige associated with some institutions but keeps an objective…