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Mexico's Economic Competitiveness Strategy at a Geopolitical Inflection
A NEW ADMINISTRATION CONFRONTS A CHANGING WORLD: MEXICO’S ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS STRATEGY AT A GEOPOLITICAL INFLECTION POINT CHRISTOPHER WILSON GOVERNANCE | MAY 2019 A NEW ADMINISTRATION CONFRONTS A CHANGING WORLD: MEXICO’S ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS STRATEGY AT A GEOPOLITICAL INFLECTION POINT CHRISTOPHER WILSON EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Some three decades ago, Mexico made a bet on the global economy, and at a time when populism and protectionism are on the rise, the payoff is at risk. In response, Mexico must double down on its openness while addressing the critical structural problems, including corruption and inequality, that inhibit its domestic economy and led to the sweeping electoral victory of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in 2018. This essay reviews Mexico’s economic progress and the challenges ahead as a new administration takes office at a time of significant stress on regional and global economic institutions. For more than a half-century following the Mexican Revolution, the country’s foreign policy was based on the principal of noninterventionism, a not so subtle way of telling the United States and others not to meddle in Mexico’s domestic affairs. The economic equivalent was Mexico’s policy of import substitution, which raised tariffs and barriers to foreign investment designed to protect the country’s domestic industries from international competition. The two combined to make Mexico an insular country, and despite the significant economic expansion achieved in the decades following World War II, by the 1970s, Mexico’s economy and politics were showing signs of strain. In the following decade, Mexico’s relationship with the world was flipped on its head. -
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Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Human Rights Studies Master of Arts Program Translating Intercultural Bilingual Education into Practice: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico City Marial Quezada Thesis Adviser: Elsa Stamatopoulou Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts May 2018 © 2018 Marial Quezada All rights reserved Abstract Translating Intercultural Bilingual Education into Practice: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico City Marial Quezada Historically, education has been used as a tool of assimilation towards Indigenous Peoples. Representing a shift away from this, in recent years, many countries in Latin America have adopted Intercultural Bilingual Education, promoting Indigenous Peoples’ rights to education in their languages and respective to their cultures. Mexico in particular, establishes Intercultural Bilingual Education as a right of all Indigenous Peoples in various laws and the Constitution of Mexico City protects this right for its Indigenous population. This study investigates the extent to which Indigenous Peoples’ rights to education, as outlined in international human rights instruments and reinforced in Mexican law, are implemented in Mexico City, accounting for its growing urban Indigenous population. Through semi-structured interviews with government officials as well as with directors and teachers from a public primary school in Mexico City, this study illustrates the role the state and educators play in the implementation of Intercultural Bilingual Education. The findings presented in the study suggest the significance of Indigenous Peoples and educators in this process, in comparison with the Mexican government, whose improved measures can help increase urban Indigenous students’ access to their education rights. -
Néstor García Canclini and Cultural Policy in Latin America
1 Néstor García Canclini and cultural policy in Latin America Bruno Peron Loureiro Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies Birkbeck College, University of London Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Arts Management, October 2014 Supervisor: Dr Lorraine Lim Co-supervisor: Dr Tim Markham Examiner: Dr Carla Figueira Examiner: Dr Mark Dinneen This thesis was sponsored by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), which is a Brazilian government research agency. 2 I, Bruno Peron Loureiro, declare that the work presented in the thesis Néstor García Canclini and cultural policy in Latin America is my own. __________________________ 3 ABSTRACT Néstor García Canclini and cultural policy in Latin America Bruno Peron Loureiro Abstract This thesis examines Néstor García Canclini´s relationships with various non-academic institutions in Latin America (focusing on Mexico) during the 1990s and the 2000s. It emphasises the shortage of communication between scholars and non-academic policy- making institutions through its study of García Canclini´s cultural policy activism. By investigating García Canclini’s activities with various Latin American non-academic institutions (and particularly those from Mexico), this thesis argues that he not only conceptualises and proposes cultural policy; he also conducts cultural policy. Through his discussion of cultural issues with bureaucrats, legislators, policy-makers, politicians, private managers and newspaper editors, this thesis evaluates his most important engagements to present how cultural policy can move from being an institutionally- oriented instrument to an intellectually-oriented operation. This thesis raises key theoretical debates such as the role of intellectuals in Latin America, cultural policy institutional development, cultural spaces, national development, urban studies, the cultural industries, globalisation and identities, and the multiplicity of cultural policy-makers. -
Sustainable Housing in Mexico
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING IN MEXICO 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 I. MEXICAN HOUSING 3 II. SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: A CONCEPT ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL HOUSING COMMISSION IN MEXICO 3 III. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S PUBLIC HOUSING POLICY 3 1. Improve public and private management on behalf of sustainable housing 4 2. Objectives of the 2008–2012 National Housing Program: a) Increase the coverage of financing for housing offered 5 to the population, particularly for low- income families 5 b) Promote sustainable housing development. 10 5 c) Consolidate the national housing system through improvements in public management 8 d) Consolidate a Federal Government support policy that helps the low-income population to obtain financing for housing and promotes sustainable housing development 6 IV. SUSTAINABLE HOUSING 7 V. CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABLE HOUSING IN MEXICO TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 1. The Green Mortgage: A product of the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (INFONAVIT) 8 a) Green Mortgage (HV) 8 b) Objectives 8 c) Benefits of the HV 8 d) Eco-technologies 9 e) Bio-climate regions and eco-technologies 10 f) E stimated savings per family 10 g) INFONAVIT 2011 11 h) Incorporation of Eco-technologies in the HV 11 i) Green Mortgage 2011 Objectives 11 j) Results 12 k) International Recognition 13 2. “This Is Your House” Subsidy 13 a) Objectives 13 b) Characteristics of the Basic Package for the Subsidy 13 c) CONAVI Requirements 14 d) Notes 14 3. Sustainable Integrated Urban Developments (Desarrollos Urbanos Integrales Sustentables, DUIS) 14 a) Background 14 b) Federal Government Encouragement 14 c) Courses of Action 15 d) Institutionalization: Inter-Secretarial Housing Commission 16 e) Integrated Sustainable Urban Developments 16 f) Types of DUIS 16 g) Sponsors of DUIS 16 h) Integration and Coordination Scheme for the Institutionalization of GPDUIS TABLE OF CONTENTS 17 i) Institutionalization at Civil Society Level: DUIS Consultative Committee 17 j) Projects – Current Status 18 4. -
First Steps of the Cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto SPECIAL REPORT
SPECIAL REPORT Mexico: First steps of the cabinet of Enrique Peña Nieto Mexico, January 2013 BARCELONA BOGOTÁ BUENOS AIRES LIMA LISBOA MADRID MÉXICO PANAMÁ QUITO RIO J SÃO PAULO SANTIAGO STO DOMINGO MEXICO: FIRST STEPS OF THE CABINET OF ENRIQUE PEÑA NIETO 1. INTRODUCTION 1. INTRODUCTION 2. POLITICS, ECONOMY AND On 1 December 2012 Enrique Peña Nieto was sworn in as Constitutional SOCIETY: CABINET’S CENTRAL President of the United Mexican States. FORMATION 3. THE PACT FOR MEXICO Furthermore, in 2012, the elections of 128 Senators and 500 Federal 4. EXPENDITURE BUDGET Deputies were held; at the local level were elected 6 Governors of 5. CONCLUSIONS the states of Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Tabasco and AUTHORS Yucatan; Head of Government of the Federal District; 579 local LLORENTE & CUENCA deputies in 15 states; 876 city councils; 20 municipal boards; and 16 Heads of Delegation of Mexico City. In total, 2127 positions at national level. In this report, we intend to describe in general the key points in the government’s formation headed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI in Spanish), the party which ruled in Mexico for 71 years, lost power to the National Action Party (PAN in Spanish) during two presidential terms and is back now. Peña Nieto has affirmed on different occasions that the PRI is no longer the same one which governed Mexico; in view of this statement, it is necessary to point out that Mexico is neither the same, that society and business people are aware of and up-to-date with what is happening, since formal and informal media and the social networks help to have a better understanding of the actions of our rulers and of national and international events. -
Technical Report Documentation Page 1. Report No. FHWA/TX-10/0
Technical Report Documentation Page 1. Report No. 2. Government 3. Recipient’s Catalog No. FHWA/TX-10/0-5985-1 Accession No. 4. Title and Subtitle 5. Report Date An Evaluation of Mexican Transportation Planning, Finance, October 2009 Implementation, and Construction Processes 6. Performing Organization Code 7. Author(s) 8. Performing Organization Report No. Lisa Loftus-Otway, Nathan Hutson, Alejandra Cruz-Ross, 0-5985-1 Rachel Niven, Leigh B. Boske, Jolanda P. Prozzi 9. Performing Organization Name and Address 10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS) Center for Transportation Research 11. Contract or Grant No. The University of Texas at Austin 0-5985-1 3208 Red River, Suite 200 Austin, TX 78705-2650 12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address 13. Type of Report and Period Covered Texas Department of Transportation Technical report, September 1, 2007 – Research and Technology Implementation Office October 30, 2009. P.O. Box 5080 14. Sponsoring Agency Code Austin, TX 78763-5080 15. Supplementary Notes Project performed in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. 16. Abstract This research examined the legal, financial, institutional and policy processes that Mexico uses to plan, finance, construct, and implement its transportation network. It documents through twelve case studies the state of the practice in planning, financing, conducting traffic and revenue studies, cost benefit analysis, and environmental assessments and reviews how right-of-way purchase occurs for multimodal transportation infrastructure projects. It was found that Mexico is aggressively targeting infrastructure development as a mechanism to improve countrywide network and modal connectivity and to redress social and economic inequality that had occurred because of the poor transportation network. -
Executive Summary Mexico Has Undertaken Significant Reforms Over
Executive Summary Mexico has undertaken significant reforms over the past year in matters of financial regulation, taxation, anti-trust, energy, and telecommunications as part of the broad Pact for Mexico initiated by President Enrique Pena-Nieto. By the end of 2013, the government had passed a number of constitutional reforms intended to encourage foreign investment and more competition as well as increase the country’s tax base. Despite the government’s projections for economic growth exceeding 3 percent, Mexico closed 2013 at a more modest 1.1% and much lower than the 3.9% growth during the prior year. While economic growth in Mexico typically slows during the first year of a new administration, weakness in the U.S. economy – which consumes more than 80 percent of Mexico’s exports – also contributed to the slowdown. The most significant changes in Mexico’s investment outlook have been in the energy and telecommunications sectors. Prior to the constitutional reform, the state-controlled oil company, Pemex, had a monopoly on all hydrocarbon activity in the country. New legislation will allow the company to partner with private sector firms, and some of the country’s oil fields will be opened to outside exploration and development. In telecommunications, reforms are intended to improve competition and diminish concentration in the sector through the creation of a new, constitutionally autonomous regulator with the authority to order divestitures, enforce regulations, and apply targeted sanctions on companies it deems dominant in the market. During the past year, Mexico also enacted changes in the treatment of maquiladora businesses, increased the value-added tax (VAT) in the border region from 11 percent to 16 percent, and imposed a number of new taxes including on junk food, mining activity, and on high-earning individuals. -
A. INTRODUCTION the Mexico Coalition for the Rights of Persons
SECSESECOND ALTERNATIVE REPORT (SAR) A. INTRODUCTION The Mexico Coalition for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COAMEX)1 is a collective of five civil society organizations whose goal is to influence public policy in our country to promote the provisions established in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This document is the Second Alternative Report (SIA) on the application of the CRPD in Mexico from 2014 to the present, covering articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31 and 33. Five different actions were carried out to gather the information, among them the COAMEX Campaign Consult to Build (CCCC), the National Survey for the Alternative Report (ENIA), information requests on the government’s transparency portals, analysis of official information and journalistic sources, as well as the study of recommendations made by different treaty bodies of the United Nations2. To develop these actions, we had support and financing from Scotiabank and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF). Some relevant events regarding the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, general compliance with Human Rights in Mexico and the country’s sociopolitical context are described below as background. Mexico and Sustainable Development On April 26, 2017, the Presidency created the 2030 Agenda’s National Council for Sustainable Development and announced the development of a digital platform to monitor the progress of the sustainable development goals (SDGs)3,4. The Presidency also delivered its first Voluntary National Report, where it reported that the Office of the President will take the lead in advancing a national strategy for fulfillment of these goals. -
Green Solutions@COP16: the Cancun Dialogue Series
Green Solutions@COP16: The Cancun Dialogue Series 5-8 December 2010 Hotel Fiesta Americana Coral Beach, Cancun At the time of COP16 the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and Secretariat of Economy of Mexico in collaboration with the World Economic Forum will co-host a series of private, invitation-only meetings as part of the wider Green Solutions@COP16 event held at the Coral Beach Hotel in Cancun. The series consists of five sessions. Each will discuss practical public-private solutions and scalable opportunities in a key theme as indicated below. Content and ideas will be drawn from work the World Economic Forum and other organisations and initiatives have been pursuing in these areas over the last year. AGENDA Sunday Dec 5th 16.00-18.00 Session I Business Leadership Monday Dec 6th 09.00-11.00 Session II Finance Monday Dec 6th 11.30-13.30 Session III REDD+ and land use Tuesday Dec 7th 09.00-11.00 Session IV Technology Development Tuesday Dec 7th 11.30-13.30 Session V Energy Efficiency To promote substantive conversation, each session will be a private, in-the-round, moderated discussion of approximately 40 people drawn from public and private sectors. This is similar to the IGWEL (Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders), a unique component of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos. Each session will contain a mixture of business executives, government officials and experts, conversant on the issue in hand. A Minister from the Government of Mexico will be present at each session and the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs will work with the World Economic Forum to ensure that key Public Figures from the various delegations will also take part. -
Anuario Anáhuac De Investigación Y Difusión 2015 Universidad Anáhuac
ANUARIO ANÁHUAC DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DIFUSIÓN 2015 UNIVERSIDAD ANÁHUAC Rector DR. CIPRIANO SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA, L.C. Vicerrectora Académica DRA. SONIA BARNETCHE FRÍAS Director de Investigación DR. JESÚS HERACLIO DEL RÍO MARTÍNEZ Director de Comunicación Institucional LIC. ABELARDO SOMUANO ROJAS Coordinadora de Publicaciones MTRA. ALMA E. CÁZARES RUIZ ANUARIO ANÁHUAC de investigación y difusión 2015 Coordinador Dr. Jesús Heraclio del Río Martínez Editora Mtra. Leticia Esther Pineda Ayala Colaboración en la traducción Mtra. Areli Anahí Sánchez Hernández Apoyo editorial Ing. Yazmín Paola Aguirre Macías Alan Raul Merino Pineda Diseño y formación de interiores Studio Ónix Diseño de portada Alejandro Merino Pineda Diseño de portadillas Studio Ónix ANUARIO ANÁHUAC DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DIFUSIÓN. Núm. 2, 2015, es una publicación anual editada por Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores S.C. (conocida como Universidad Anáhuac México). Av. Universidad Anáhuac 46, Col. Lomas Anáhuac, Huixquilucan, Estado de México, C.P. 52786. Tel. 5627-0210, http://ww2.anahuac.mx/ddga/index.php/areas/di/investigacion. Editor responsable: Jesús Heraclio del Río Martínez. Reservas de derecho al uso exclusivo: en trámite. ISSN: en trámite. Ambos son otorgados por el Instituto Nacional de Derechos de Autor. Queda estrictamente prohibida la reproducción total o parcial de los contenidos e imágenes de la publicación sin previa autorización del editor. ÍNDICE PRESENTACIÓN ................................................................................................................................................ -
Regulation of the Foreign Investment
REGULATION OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW AND THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT NATIONAL REGISTRY Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union Last reform OJF 17-08-2016 General Secretariat Ministry of Parliamentary Services REGULATION OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW AND THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT NATIONAL REGISTRY New Regulation published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on September 8, 1998 CURRENT TEXT Last reform published OJF 08-17-2016 On the margin, a seal bearing the national crest that reads: Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Mexican United States).- Presidencia de la Republica (Presidency of the Republic.). ERNESTO ZEDILLO PONCE DE LEÓN, President of the United Mexican States, in exercise of the power conferred on me by Article 89, fraction I, of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, based on articles 27, 28, 31, 32, 32 Bis, 33, 34, 36, 40 and 42 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration and 1, 22, 23, 28, 31, 33, 35, 36 and 38 of the Foreign Investment Law, we have issued the following REGULATION OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW AND THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT NATIONAL REGISTRY TITLE I GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE 1.- For the purposes of this Regulation, in addition to what is established in Article 2. Of the Foreign Investment Law, the following shall mean: I. Reserved activities: those referred to in Articles 5 and 6 of the law; II. Activities with specific regulation: those subject to maximum participation limits of investment from foreign, under the terms of the Law and applicable legislation; III. Law: The Foreign Investment Law; IV. Majority of foreign capital: the participation of foreign investment in more than 49% of the share capital of a company; V. -
North America Canada, USA and Mexico: Working Together for a Promising Future
North America Canada, USA and Mexico: Working Together for a Promising Future September, 2016 Content GEOGRAPHY COMPETITIVENESS AGRICULTURE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECONOMY LABOR MARKET TOURISM ENERGY REGIONALISM AUTOMOTIVE DEMOGRAPHY BORDER MACHINERY CONNECTED INTEGRATION AND ELECTRICAL SOCIETY TPP INTRA-REGIONAL THE LEADERS’ TRADE AEROSPACE EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE GEOGRAPHY OUR REGION IS GEOGRAPHICALLY AND RESOURCE PRIVILEGED North America (NA) is strategically positioned in the Northern Hemisphere between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Europe and Asia. It is home to 231,000 km of coastlines, repre- Territory Size Fresh Water senting 88% of the continent’s perimeter.1 times world’s 2.4x Europe 4x per capita average2 With 21.6 Million km2 of territory (Canada: 9.9; China + India + Brazil1 USA: 9.8; Mexico: 1.9), North America is 2.4x = times Europe’s size, and as large as China, India and Brazil combined.2 It is rich in natural resources, holding over 30% Woods Oil of the world’s coal reserves (270 Billion tons); of world’s of global it ranks #3 in global petroleum reserves 18% forests2 14% reserves3 (230 Billion barrels).2 NA boasts 4x the average per capita fresh- water allowance worldwide as well as 18% of the world’s forests (7.2 Million km2), and 12% of the planet’s arable land is in NA.3 Arable Land Coal of the of global 12% world2 30% reserves3 Source: 1) World Atlas, 2016. 2) World Bank, 2016. 3) CIA World Factbook, 2016. 1 ECONOMY TRADE MAKES US ONE OF THE STRONGEST ECONOMIC REGIONS NA's combined contribution to the world's GDP is 28% and it represents 14% of global exports.