Despite Mexico’s recent remarkable progress in adjusting its fiscal and external accounts and in restructuring its … economy, the recovery of growth has remained elusive. This paper reviews some aspects of Mexico’s recent performance and … among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the global crisis and potential growth in Mexico. The paper uses two methodologies … to assess to what extent the global crisis is likely to weigh on Mexico’s growth potential. The first approach is …

Strong fundamentals and a policy track record helped Mexico to withstand the fallout from the global crisis and aided … rate regime has helped Mexico. The long-term challenges include declining oil reserves relative to GDP and population aging …. Advancing structural reforms to increase productivity and promote investment will help in increasing the growth potential …

deteriorated on a number of fronts—inflation has risen; investment and growth have slowed; and the external current account deficit … is large while foreign investment flows have fallen significantly. The influence of various factors on Sri Lanka’s longer …-term growth performance is discussed. The implications of structural reforms for investment and growth are also examined …