Spatial Dimensions of Trade Liberalization and Economic Convergence: Mexico 1985-2002

• Tác giả: Patricio Aroca
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 598.19 Ayes (Birds)
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 297837
• Chủ đề: 1. ABUNDANCE; 2. AGGREGATE INEQUALITY; 3. AGRICULTURE; 4. AVERAGE INCOME; 5. AVERAGE INCOMES

Tóm tắt

This paper studies the spatial dimension of growth in Mexico over the past three decades. The literature on regional economic growth shows a decrease in regional dispersion from 1970 to 1985, and a sharp increase afterward coinciding with the trade liberalization of the Mexican economy. Using spatial econometric, tools the authors analyze how the process of convergence/divergence has mapped spatially and whether it makes sense to talk about spatial regions in Mexico. Although the rich North-poor South dichotomy has dominated this phenomenon, interesting patterns emerge. Namely the distribution of growth after Mexico's post-liberalization seems to be much less associated with distance to the United States than the authors had initially expected.