While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth … outsourcing industries in Mexico experience fluctuations in value added that are roughly twice as volatile as the corresponding …"While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth …

The main purpose of this book is to explain Mexico's substandard economic activity by applying the foundational factors … approach primarily to Mexico and, for purposes of comparison, secondarily to the United States. The argument is that, unlike … the United States, Mexico has been shaped by an inherently difficult context. Formidable environmental or geographic …