The maquiladora temporary employment program became permanent, as a strategy to accelerate industrial growth. After three decades of its existence, its effects on productivity, its integration into aggregate national value and the overall growth of the manufacturing sector is not fulfilling what was expected of it. The factors accounting for this result are the operation of...
The aim here is to explain the movement of growing national yields to scale of production. The objective of the study involves studying and measuring the impact of urbanization on the country's economic growth. As a major theoretical line the contributions of endogenous growth were used, where the element of externality is added to the main factors of production, capital and...
This study gives the results of an investigation into the factors affecting inequality and the polarization of wage distribution in Mexico. Based on information from the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (ENIGH) in Mexico for 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002, it consists of calculating inequality indicators such as the Gini coefficient, the variance...
In efficient markets current prices reflect all available information. Past prices do not contain any useful information for predicting future prices or for realizing extraordinary gains. This principle, known as the weak hypothesis of informational market efficiency, has been incorporated into Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory to overcome its limitations in the intertemporal...
The aim of this study is to analyze the functioning of the Mexican banking system in the light of the post-Keynesian theory of the endogeneity of money and of the institutional changes occurring in the last three decades. It is argued that the contraction of bank loans is due, on the one hand, to a fall in the demand for credit, the independence of investment with respect to the...
The article involves a discussion on the historical change of capitalism and the role played in that process by the emergence of the so-called knowledge economy. It lays down a theoretical and historical framework and proposes a number of hipotheses which together enable us to characterize the specificity of the present stage of capitalism. The knowledge economy is established on...
On the basis of applying the economic geography approach to MERCOSUR's economic integration process, in the first section I discuss a model developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in favor of ALCA. In the second section, we consider the limits of such a conception, noting the absence of certain fundamental variables that are nevertheless worthy of consideration in...
Information on world population growth in the 1990's and the first years of the 21st century is analyzed and it is suggested that the projections circulated between 1950 and 1970 were exaggerated. At the same time, data relating to cereal production is analyzed. The biggest increase is observed in animal feed. In the case of China, there was a severe decline in the final years...
The maquiladora temporary employment program became permanent, as a strategy to accelerate industrial growth. After three decades of its existence, its effects on productivity, its integration into aggregate national value and the overall growth of the manufacturing sector is not fulfilling what was expected of it. The factors accounting for this result are the operation of...
The aim here is to explain the movement of growing national yields to scale of production. The objective of the study involves studying and measuring the impact of urbanization on the country's economic growth. As a major theoretical line the contributions of endogenous growth were used, where the element of externality is added to the main factors of production, capital and...
This study gives the results of an investigation into the factors affecting inequality and the polarization of wage distribution in Mexico. Based on information from the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (ENIGH) in Mexico for 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002, it consists of calculating inequality indicators such as the Gini coefficient, the variance...
In efficient markets current prices reflect all available information. Past prices do not contain any useful information for predicting future prices or for realizing extraordinary gains. This principle, known as the weak hypothesis of informational market efficiency, has been incorporated into Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory to overcome its limitations in the intertemporal...
The aim of this study is to analyze the functioning of the Mexican banking system in the light of the post-Keynesian theory of the endogeneity of money and of the institutional changes occurring in the last three decades. It is argued that the contraction of bank loans is due, on the one hand, to a fall in the demand for credit, the independence of investment with respect to the...
The article involves a discussion on the historical change of capitalism and the role played in that process by the emergence of the so-called knowledge economy. It lays down a theoretical and historical framework and proposes a number of hipotheses which together enable us to characterize the specificity of the present stage of capitalism. The knowledge economy is established on...
On the basis of applying the economic geography approach to MERCOSUR's economic integration process, in the first section I discuss a model developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in favor of ALCA. In the second section, we consider the limits of such a conception, noting the absence of certain fundamental variables that are nevertheless worthy of consideration in...
Reseñas Flexibles y disciplinados. Los trabajadores brasileños frente a la reestructuración productiva, Noela Invernizzi Ángel Luis Rocha Aceves* México, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, 2004, 323 pp. * Profesor de la División de Posgrado de la FCA Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Noela Invernizzi analiza las formas de control y de descalificación de los trabajadores en...
Reseñas Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power, Doron S. Ben-Atar Roberto Guerra Milligan* New Haven, Yale University Press, 2004. 281 pp.** *Investigador del IIEC, UNAM. Para sir Joseph Whitworth, industrial de mediados del siglo XIX, paladín de la alta precisión en las máquinas-herramienta, la razón principal del éxito tecnológico de...
Reseñas Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control, J.S. Shortle y D. Abler (editores) Rosario Pérez Espejo* Nueva York, CAB International, 2001, 226 pp. * Investigadora Titular "C" del Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM. Este libro, que en español se podría llamar La política ambiental para el control de la contaminación agrícola, analiza el problema...
Testimonios Paul M. Sweezy. Un gran marxista In memoriam Arturo Bonilla Sánchez* * Investigador titular de T.C. del Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM. Fecha de recepción: 17 de noviembre de 2004. Fecha de aceptación: 10 de marzo de 2005. "México debe 85 mil millones de dólares. ¿Vale México 85 mil millones de dólares? Por supuesto que sí. Tiene exportaciones de...
Comentarios y debates Oscilaciones en la economía global, rigidez en los países emergentes: la experiencia de la convertibilidad en Argentina Ramiro Xavier Vera-Fluixá* * Profesor-investigador de la Universidad de Würzburg, Alemania. Correo electrónico: [email protected] Fecha de recepción: 25 de octubre de 2004. Fecha de aceptación: 21 de enero de 2005. El...
The paper analyzes the principal changes which the producers themselves have set in motion in horticultural activities in the Mexicali valley, as a fundamental condition for their continued presence in the international market. This activity in the region emerged to complement U.S. production and, from the 1950s onwards, sought to consolidate its presence in that country's market...
In this paper, the results are presented of a study based on a survey carried out among 58 industrial companies in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in 2002, classified as local (individual and matrices) vs. foreign (subsidiaries of groups), and both national and multinational. On this basis, it was sought to identify the economic activities with major degrees of impact in the region...
This study establishes the importance of a systemic focus linked to the development and consolidation of production chains as a stimulus to development in the economies of Latin America. In that context and within the theoretical framework of the literature dealing with shortfalls in coordination and problems linked to the application of national systems of innovation, this study...