Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Promise of FDI for Sustainable Development -- 2 The Emergence of Mexico's Enclave Economy -- 3 Globally Networked, Environmentally Challenged: A Profile of the IT Industry -- 4 Wired for Sustainable Development? IT and Late Industrialization -- 5...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Autumn of Proyectismo -- 1. Continuity and Crisis, 1789-1797 -- 2. War and the Colonies: Aranda and Godoy -- 3. The Late Proyectistas -- Part Two: Fissioning of New Spain -- 4. Reorganizing New Spain's External Trade: The Effects of Comercio Libre,...

Based on interviews with Leamington greenhouse growers and migrant Mexican workers, Tanya Basok offers a timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed. She argues that while Mexican workers do not necessarily constitute cheap labour for Canadian growers, they are...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Three Industries to One: Towards an Integrated North American Automobile Industry -- 3. NAFTA,...

<DIV><P><EM>Fires on the Border</EM> takes up questions of labor and community organizing-its "affect-culture"-on Mexico's northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of...</em></p></div>

This paper reviews the Mexican experience with the securitization of residential mortgages. It highlights the key legislative and institutional reforms leading to the development of primary and secondary mortgage markets and reports the main features and valuation practices of the RMBS markets....

This paper examines the relative importance of external shocks as sources of business cycle fluctuations in Mexico, and identifies the dynamic responses of domestic output to foreign disturbances. Using a VAR model with block exogeneity restrictions, it finds that U.S. shocks explain a large...

A self-exciting threshold autoregressive model is used to measure transaction costs that may explain relative price differentials and nonlinearities in the behavior of sectoral real exchange rates across Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Interpreting price threshold bands as transactions costs, we...

Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial self-selection by households who acquire knowledge about the program and apply for benefits, followed by an administrative determination of eligibility based on a means test....