type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article examines Mexico's industrial policy and economic performance, focusing on an analysis of the structural changes in its manufacturing sector associated with NAFTA. The aim of the article is to improve our understanding of why the post-NAFTA...</p>

Comprising specially commissioned essays, the Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of alternative theories of economic growth. It surveys major sub-fields (including classical, Kaleckian, evolutionary, and Kaldorian growth theories) and highlights cutting-edge issues such as the...

En este trabajo se examinan las pautas de crecimiento de América Central en los noventa, identificando los elementos fundamentales que marcan una divergencia con respecto al patrón seguido anteriormente. Énfasis especial se pone en examinar las interrelaciones que se dan entre la forma de...

This article concerns Mexico's industrial policy and economic performance, focusing on an analysis of the structural changes associated with NAFTA that have occurred in the country's manufacturing sector. The purpose of the article is to improve our understanding of why the post-NAFTA evolution...

El artículo examina las razones por las que la economía mexicana es una de las más gra¬vemente afectadas por la crisis financiera internacional. Para ello identifica los canales principales de transmisión de sus efectos de la crisis internacional y de qué forma inciden en las fortalezas y...

The objective of this paper is to show how Mexico's strategy of financial deregulation and liberalization set the stage for the crisis that the country suffered in December 1994. The theoretical underpinning is Post-Keynesian, and more precisely, a Minsky-inspired analytical perspective extended...

The analytical framework known as the balance-of-payments constrained growth model introduced by Anthony P. Thirlwall more than two decades ago, and further developed by him and N. Hussain, was a major contribution to understanding the relevance of a foreign exchange constraint on the long-run...

Summary This paper analyzes the extent to which Mexican exports have penetrated US markets in recent years, and juxtaposes such an analysis with the performance of China. We find that Mexico's main non-oil exports are losing dynamism, and their relative share in the US market is either declining...

This article puts forward an econometric test of the intertemporal approach of the current account for the Spanish economy using procedures suitable to deal with long run time series. The test considers two expectations' generation processes. The standard one and an alternative one where...