The politics of Mexican development

La gestion de la migration mexicano-américaine : intérêts nationaux et réponses régionales à un problème bilatéral croissant (1947-1952)

The economic activities of the state have rightly been regarded as a crucial factor in the remarkably rapid process of capitalist expansion experienced by Mexico in the two decades after the Second World War, and must also be seen as such in the imbalance that has emerged over the last ten years –an imbalance that itself led to an accelerated growth of the public sector. State intervention in the process of capital accumulation during the period of dependent import-substituting industrialization is common to the experience of Latin America as a whole, but in Mexico the scale and scope of this intervention appear to have been greater than elsewhere, generating an important debate over the size of the Mexican public sector in the 1960s, and now providing a significant case to be examined in the light of current discussions as to the relative autonomy of the state in capitalist economies.

The State and Capital Accumulation in Mexico

This article explores the importance of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. The issue of how to categorise and understand space in so-called peripheral regions such as Latin A...

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The survival of non-capitalism

This article surveys the development of the Mexican tourist industry from 1946 to the present and describes developments which led to expansion of that industry in the 1970s. A demand equation is presented, and hypotheses regarding the variables determining foreign tourists' demand for visits are supported.

Public Policy and the Growth of the Mexican Tourism Industry, 1970-1979

The purpose of this paper is to consider whether the institutional factors associated with the Mexican land reform ( ejido ) sector constrain agricultural growth. Parting from the assumption that the ejido may be considered a more or less fixed element of Mexico's cultural and political scene, the paper focuses on the piecemeal changes that could help to enhance growth and productivity within the existing structure. The author finds no conclusive evidence that individual ejidos are significantly less productive than private farms, and hence, it seems unlikely that privatization of ejidos would greatly improve agricultural growth. He recommends the following improvements to the existing structure : giving the ejidatarios titles to their parcels of land, simplifying restrictions for private farmers on holding size and land use, ending restrictions on renting or sharecropping by ejidatarios, allowing ejidatarios to sell their land parcels to other members of their ejido, improving management of communal land, and extending credit directly to individual ejidatarios on the basis of their creditworthiness.

The politics of Mexican development

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La gestion de la migration mexicano-américaine : intérêts nationaux et réponses régionales à un problème bilatéral croissant (1947-1952)

The State and Capital Accumulation in Mexico

The survival of non-capitalism

Public Policy and the Growth of the Mexican Tourism Industry, 1970-1979

Enhancing the contribution of land reform to Mexican agricultural development

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