Why isn't Mexico rich?
By: Gordon H. Hanson
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16470; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16470.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment, achieving fiscal discipline, and privatizing state owned enterprises.  Despite these efforts, the country's economic growth has been lackluster, trailing that of many other developing nations.  In this paper, I review arguments for why Mexico hasn't sustained higher rates of economic growth.  The most prominent suggest that some combination of poorly functioning credit markets, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth.  These are factors internal to Mexico.  One possible external factor is that the country has the bad luck of exporting goods that China sells, rather than goods that China buys.  I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and suggest directions for future research"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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