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 paper assesses the real effects of the energy reform in Mexico by looking at its impact on manufacturing output …

We assess the aggregate productivity impact of distortions arising from labor regulations in Mexico and how they … about informal firms in Mexico. We then construct and estimate a model of heterogeneous firms and endogenous informality to …

This paper analyzes the sources of Mexico''s economic growth since the 1960s and compares various decompositions of …

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of NAFTA on growth and business cycles in Mexico. The … effect of the agreement in spurring a dramatic increase in trade and financial flows between Mexico and its NAFTA partners … facts and recent empirical research. The paper concludes by drawing lessons from Mexico''s NAFTA experience for policymakers …

investment spending and growth and only in the same year, as lagged impacts are not significant. Furthermore, there is little … Ethiopia in recent years, as high public investment has coincided with high GDP growth, but it is probably too early to draw … investment drives tend eventually to be financed by borrowing and have been plagued by poor analytics at the time investment …

This paper finds convergence of real per capita GDP in Mexico’s states and regions during the period of higher average …

While inflation slowed sharply in Mexico during 1988, imports surged. Although the growth of domestic absorption could … the recovery of private investment was the main driving force, as the private sector saved most of its interest income on … stimulating exports and investment …