Mexico: Selected Issues and Analytical Notes

November 13, 2017

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Mexico: Selected Issues and Analytical Notes, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper assesses the economic impact of Mexico’s structural reforms. The Mexican authorities have been implementing an ambitious structural reform agenda in a coordinated effort to lift productivity growth. The reforms have targeted a broad range of industries; dissolved state monopolies; and addressed labor market, education, and governance shortcomings. The analysis suggests that external headwinds have masked evidence that the reforms are achieving many of the intended transformations in the targeted sectors. Priority should go to reforms targeting the rule of law and attendant improvements in security and reduction of corruption. These will not only improve the business environment but are key to the success of existing reform efforts.

Subject: Commodities, Electricity, Labor, Oil, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: CR, Electricity, Global, Government, IMF staff calculation, Informal firm, ISCR, Oil, Output wedge, Price, Productivity, Resource misallocation, TFP gain, Total factor productivity

Publication Details

Pages:

34
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2017/347
Stock No:

1MEXEA2017003
ISBN:

9781484327647
ISSN:

1934-7685

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