The Political Economy of Mexico's Financial Reform

The Political Economy of Mexico's Financial Reform

Author: Osvaldo Santin Quiroz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1351786768

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This title was first published in 2001. An analysis of the political economy of Mexico's financial reform. It is organized in three parts. The first part - chapters one to four - develops the framework, both historical and institutional. The first chapter outlines the theoretical discussion on state autonomy and develops a simple analytical framework to study public policy decisions. The subsequent three chapters address three main themes: external dependency of domestic states on international capital, political change under President Carlos Salinas and financial policy in Mexico. The second part presents the analysis of three main institutional changes to the financial system - development banking reform, commercial banking privatisation and autonomy of the central bank. Each specific case study shows how the reforms conformed to the ideas of the dominant consensus on economic policy and how they delivered an inefficient incentive structure. The third part - chapter eight - brings together all the elements to explain Mexico's 1994 financial crisis.


The Mexican Economy

The Mexican Economy

Author: Enrique Cárdenas

Publisher: World Economies

Published: 2022-10-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781788212670

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Mexico is the fifteenth largest economy in the world and Latin America's biggest exporter and importer. There are, however, two Mexicos: one more prosperous, advanced and modern, the other poor, isolated and backward, and this polarization characterizes much of Mexico's recent economic development. This book charts Mexico's modern economic history as well as its current structure, its regional differences, and the productivity gaps and economic challenges it faces. It examines the relative robustness of recent macroeconomic fundamentals alongside industry-level economic trends, especially those sectors dependent on exports through the North American free trade agreement. The book covers demographic trends, urbanization, education and health, and migration to the North. The economic impact of Mexico's long border with the United States is given particular focus. As are drugs, organized crime and the country's entrenched corruption. The book offers a concise and up to date analysis of Mexico's economic development and the country's political economy suitable for a range of courses in Latin American studies and Development Studies.


Revolution in Development

Revolution in Development

Author: Christy Thornton

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0520297164

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Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of postrevolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international economic institutions. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico, the United States, and Great Britain, Christy Thornton meticulously traces how Mexican officials repeatedly rallied Third World leaders to campaign for representation in global organizations and redistribution through multilateral institutions. By decentering the United States and Europe in the history of global economic governance, Revolution in Development shows how Mexican economists, diplomats, and politicians fought for more than five decades to reform the rules and institutions of the global capitalist economy. In so doing, the book demonstrates, Mexican officials shaped not only their own domestic economic prospects but also the contours of the project of international development itself.


Confronting Development

Confronting Development

Author: Kevin J. Middlebrook

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 0804745897

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Since the 1980s, Mexico has alternately served as a model of structural economic reform and as a cautionary example of the limitations associated with market-led development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment of the principal economic and social policies adopted by Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s.


The Making of a Market

The Making of a Market

Author: Juliette Levy

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0271052147

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During the nineteenth century, Yucat&án moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucat&án and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional and historical example of overdependence on foreign markets and extortionary local elites. In The Making of a Market, Juliette Levy argues instead that local social and economic dynamics are the root of the region&’s development. She shows how credit markets contributed to the boom before banks (and bank crises) existed and how people borrowed before the creation of institutions designed specifically to lend. As the intermediaries in this lending process, notaries became unwitting catalysts of Yucat&án&’s capitalist transformation. By focusing attention on the notaries&’ role in structuring the mortgage market rather than on formal institutions such as banks, this study challenges the easy compartmentalization of local and global relationships and of economic and social relationships.


The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930

The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930

Author: Jeff Bortz

Publisher: Social Science History

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780804742078

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Studying the interaction of political and economic institutions in Mexico during the period of 1870-1930, this book shows how institutional change can foment economic growth.


The Political Economy of Mexico's Financial Reform

The Political Economy of Mexico's Financial Reform

Author: QUIROZ

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781138703742

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"Cover"--"Half Title" -- "Dedication" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "List of Abbreviations" -- "Introduction" -- "1 State Autonomy and Policy Reform: A Theoretical Framework" -- "2 The Politics of International Finance: Fostering Reform" -- "3 Domestic Politics: Making the Reform Possible" -- "4 Financial Policy in Mexico: A Historical Account" -- "5 Development Banking Reform" -- "6 Commercial Banks' Privatisation" -- "7 Banco de Mexico's Autonomy" -- "8 The Political Economy of Mexico's 1994 Financial Crisis" -- "Conclusions" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography


Revolution and State in Modern Mexico

Revolution and State in Modern Mexico

Author: Adam David Morton

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-10-04

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1442229454

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Now in an updated edition, this groundbreaking study develops a new approach to understanding the formation of the postrevolutionary state in Mexico. In a shift away from dominant interpretations, Adam David Morton considers the construction of the revolution and the modern Mexican state through a fresh analysis of the Mexican Revolution, the era of import substitution industrialization, and neoliberalism. Throughout, the author makes interdisciplinary links among geography, political economy, postcolonialism, and Latin American studies in order to provide a new framework for analyzing the development of state power in Mexico. He also explores key processes in the contestation of the modern state, specifically through studies of the role of intellectuals, democratization and democratic transition, and spaces of resistance. As Morton argues, all these themes can only be fully understood through the lens of uneven development in Latin America. Centrally, the book shows how the history of modern state formation and uneven development in Mexico is best understood as a form of passive revolution, referring to the ongoing class strategies that have shaped relations between state and civil society. As such, Morton makes an important interdisciplinary contribution to debates on state formation relevant to Mexican studies, postcolonial and development studies, historical sociology, and international political economy by revitalizing the debate on the uneven and combined character of development in Mexico and throughout Latin America. In so doing, he convincingly contends that uneven development can once again become a tool for radical political economy analysis in and beyond the region. A substantive new epilogue engages the main theoretical debates that have emerged since the book was first published, while also exploring the dominant geographies of power and resistance that are shaping state space in Mexico in the twenty-first century. And now a Spanish edition, Revolución y Estado en México moderno (México, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 2017), is available as well. Click here to see the book trailer.