NAFTA’s Impact on Mexico’s Regional Development (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 51)

✍ Scribed by Adrián de León-Arias (editor), Patricio Aroca (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, the dynamics of continuity and change in the regional economic development of Mexico and the US border states are analyzed. These studies cover the last 25 years, after the first trade agreement, between a developed and a developing country, tooks place, and where international trade and investment have been combined with a set of relevant local factors such as regional innovation, industrialization patterns, multinational corporations’ modes of operation, public investment, and national content of exports.

The book offers researchers a precise identification of stylized facts that characterize the pattern of regional development in Mexico and the US Southwest as well as state-of-the-art applications contrasting hypotheses from new economic geography, endogenous and neo-Schumpeterian economic growth models, and new international trade. To graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of spatial geographic economics, this book offers an excellent source for its updated review of current topics on regional development in Mexico. To policy makers, the book helps to identify policy areas to reinforce the dynamics of regional development.

Whereas other books have looked at the several impacts of NAFTA on national economies, productive sectors, and societies, this book analyzes the trade agreement’s impact with a long-term view across the diversity of developments of Mexico´s regions. As well, the analysis is carried out with the perspective of prospective reforms of a renovated trade agreement between the United States and the new Mexican federal administration .

The collaborators in this book are researchers who are experts at the international and national levels in the field of regional economic development. During the last 25 years they have conducted their analyses in different regions of Mexico and the United States as university researchers, advisors to state and federal governments, and as practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Introducción
References
Contents
About the Editors
A Review of Regional Development, Disparities, and Public Policies in Mexico: Reflections on an Environment of Strategic Recon...
1 Introduction
2 Regional Economic Disparities from a Historical Perspective
3 Liberalization of the Mexican Economy in the Reformist Agenda
4 The Regional Question and Spatial Disparities in the Openness and Trade Liberalization Era
5 Regional Planning and Policy in Mexico
6 Final Considerations: Towards the Future of Regional Development
6.1 Border Competitiveness and the Relative Success of the Mexican North
6.2 Restructuring and Predominance of the Central Region
6.3 The Rise of the Industrial Bajío
6.4 Failed Regional Policy in the South and Southeast
References
Regional Advantages: Why U.S.-Mexico Trade Is Robust and Permanent
1 Introduction: U.S.-Mexico Trade Is Robust and Permanent
2 The Gravity Model and U.S.-Mexico Trade in Historical Perspective
3 How Border Manufacturing Grew to Prominence
4 Post-NAFTA: The Rise of Global Value Chains
5 State and Local Governments Support Mexico-U.S. Trade
6 Conclusion
References
Regional Economic Development in Mexico: Past, Present, and Future
1 Regional Economic Development (RED)
2 Trade Openness (Globalization)
3 Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality
4 Trade Openness and Internal Migration
5 Specialization
6 Economic Integration and Regional Convergence
7 Road Infrastructure and RED
8 RED Challenges for the New Government
9 Conclusions
Bibliography
Identification and Spatial Hierarchy of Industrial Conglomerates with Census Data. A Suggested Procedure and Application to th...
1 Introduction
1.1 Relevance and Preliminary Definitions
1.2 The Present Study
2 Eight Problems in Spatial Analysis
2.1 Geometric Attributes of Polygons
2.1.1 Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)
2.1.2 The Checkerboard Problem
2.1.3 Form, Location, and Size
2.1.4 Suggested Solutions for Geometric Attributes
2.2 Value of the Variable
2.2.1 Atypical and Extreme Values, Including Zeros
2.2.2 Simultaneous Occurrence and Spatial Mismatch of Concentration and Agglomeration Processes
2.2.3 Intensity and Magnitude Effects
2.2.4 Suggested Solutions for Value of the Variable
2.3 Additional Observations to Common Problems
3 A Procedure to Identify Industrial Conglomerates and Set Up Their Internal Spatial Hierarchy
3.1 Step 1. Identification of High Global Values (HGV) and High Local Values (HLV)
3.1.1 Identification of HGV of the Concentration Process by Resampling
3.1.2 Identification of HLV of the Spatial Agglomeration Process by Local Spatial Autocorrelation
3.2 Step 2. Identification of Conglomerates of Intensity or Magnitude. Thinking Outside-the-Box: Overlapping HGV and HLV
3.3 Step 3. Setting up the Industrial Spatial Hierarchy by Overlaying Conglomerates of Magnitude and Intensity
3.3.1 Intersection of the Conglomerates of Intensity and Magnitude
3.3.2 Spatial Relevance of Areas Located outside the Intersection, but within Conglomerates
3.3.3 Spatial Relevance of Areas Outside of Conglomerates
3.4 Contribution to the Treatment of the Eight Selected Problems in Spatial Analysis
4 Case Study
4.1 Intensity
4.2 Magnitude
4.3 Conglomerate Overlaying and Spatial Hierarchy inside Them
4.4 Analytic Scrutiny of PRC and their Spatial Dynamics, 1998-2013
4.5 Other Industrial Zones
5 Discussion
5.1 Summary and Lessons from the Case Study
6 Concluding Remarks
References
Regional Characteristics of Labor Productivity in Mexico´s Manufacturing Sector
1 Introduction
2 Trends of Labor Productivity in Mexico
2.1 Labor Productivity in the Mexican Economy
2.2 Labor Productivity in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
2.3 Regional Characteristics of Labor Productivity Growth
3 Determinants of Labor Productivity in Mexico
4 Concluding Remarks
References
Value Added in Exports Under NAFTA: A Binational Input-Output Model
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Value-Added Methodology in Binational Trade
4 Binational Input-Output Table
5 Results
6 Conclusions
References
Structural Change in the Exports and Foreign Direct Investment of the Southeast Gulf Mexican States
1 Introduction
2 Structure of the Southeast Gulf Region
3 Estimation of the Structural Change in Exports and FDI
4 Impact of Exports and FDI on Mexico´s Southeast Gulf
4.1 Accounting Multiplier Model
4.2 Database: Social Accounting Matrix of the Southeast Gulf Region of Mexico
4.3 Empirical Strategy
4.4 Results
4.4.1 Impact of the Structural Change in Manufacturing Exports
4.4.2 Impact of the Structural Change in Foreign Investment
5 Conclusions
References