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The Caboose of the Mexican Economy is 80% of the Train

08/01/2011
Luis Rubio, Nexos

An old axiom says that the Stone Age did not end for lack of stones. Many of Mexico's current problems, such as violence and the fight against organized crime and poor economic performance we have experienced, seem overwhelming, especially if we are guided solely by the headlines. However, contrary to what might appear at first glance, our problems are not unsolvable. The mere fact that their nature has been changing over time suggests that there are ways to solve and even many of them are due to reform processes that have led the country to fruition but, with better focus and greater understanding of its causes and dynamics, could accomplish it. The Stone Age ended when technological change allowed to leave the stones. The same could happen to the country as a whole. (Translated)

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Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics.  He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining UCSD in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).

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