Mexico's Economy: A Policy Analysis with Forecasts to 1990

ISBN-13: 9780367020293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 147 str.

Robert E. Looney

Opis

In the spring of 1976, I had the privilege of serving on a Stanford Research Institute team engaged in examining various facets of the Mexican economy. That study provided the opportunity to visit many government ministries and talk with some of Mexico's leading economists. These professional experiences stimulated me to undertake full-scale research on the growth potential of the Mexican economy, a subject in which I had long been interested and on which I had written from time to time, beginning with my book Income Distribution Policies and Economic Growth in Semi-Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Study of Iran, Mexico, Brazil, and South Korea. 1 The present volume might be regarded as the culmination of this endeavor. The methodological approach here is partly descriptive and partly empirical-illustrative formal models are built on both qualitative and theoretical foundations. To sharpen the issue and put the Mexican economy in perspective, international comparisons are made through-out.

Spis treści

List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 1940-1970 Period -- 3. Increased Difficulties in Applying Monetary Policy -- 4. Increasing Fiscal Constraints on Growth -- 5. Economic Growth, 1970-1973 -- 6. The 1974-1975 Disequilibrium -- 7. General Observations on the Echeverria Administration -- 8. The 1976 Devaluation of the Peso -- 9. Problems Facing the Lopez Portillo Administration -- 10. The Economic Policies of the Lopez Portillo Administration -- 11. Patterns of Development, 1976-1990 -- 12. Potential Obstacles to Accelerated Growth -- 13. A Long-Term Development Strategy for Mexico -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.