Changing structure of Mexico : political, social, and economic prospects / Laura Randall, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Randall, Laura.

Series:

Columbia University seminar series.

Columbia University seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico--Economic conditions--1994-.

Mexico.

Mexico--Social conditions--1970-.

Mexico--Economic policy.

Mexico--Social policy.

Mexico--Politics and government--1988-2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Features a comprehensive presentation of Mexico's political, social, and economic issues. This book covers such topics as Mexico's foreign economic policy and NAFTA; maquiladoras; technology policy; and Asian competition; as well as domestic economics such as banking, tax reform, and oil/energy policy; the environment; and more.

Contents:

Reinventing Mexico / Laura Randall.

Ideologies and values / Miguel Basanez.

Problem of political consolidation in Mexico / Soledad Loaeza.

Mexican foreign policy / Pamela K. Starr.

Mexico's foreign economic policy / Sidney Weintraub.

The Mexican economy: transformation and challenges / Alejandro M. Werner, Rodrigo Barros, and Jose F. Ursua.

Regional difference and the economic and social geography of Mexico at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Boris Graizbord and Adrian Guillermo Aguilar.

NAFTA-driven changes in the regional pattern of economic growth in Mexico: profile and determinants / Rafael Tamayo-Flores.

Changes in determinants of tax policy / Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra.

Changing constraints of monetary policy: distortions and resolution in Mexico's financial system / Eugenia Correa.

Mexico's public sector debt and debt management / Graciana del Castillo.

Changing patterns in Mexican science and technology policy (1990-2003): still far from economic development / Jordy Micheli Thirion and Ruben Oliver Espinoza.

The reshaping of agricultural policy in Mexico / Antonio Yunez-Naude and Fernando Barceinas Paredes.

Mexican oil, gas, electricity generation, and energy consumption / Juan Quintanilla Martinez and Mariano Bauer E.

Industrial development and technology policy: the case of the maquiladoras / Oscar F. Contreras.

Principally women: gender in the politics of Mexican education / Fernando Reimers.

The environment: or how social issues affect the commitment of environmental tasks / Javier Delgado... [et al].

Beyond islands? Sustainable rural development in Mexico / David Barton Bray, Skya Rose Murphy, and Melissa Cornejo.

Flowing uphill toward money: groundwater management and ejidal producers in Mexico's free trade environment / Margaret Wilder and Scott Whiteford.

The justice system: judiciary. military, and human rights / Hugo Alejandro Concha Cantu.

Institutionalizing Mexico's new democracy / Joseph L. Klesner.

The political participation of women in contemporary Mexico / Maria Luisa Tarres.

Religion, church, and state in contemporary Mexico / Roberto Blancarte.

Mexican labor in a context of political, social, and economic change, 1982-2002 / Francisco Zapata.

Mexico-U.S. migration: economic effects and policy impact / Pia M. Orrenius.

Understanding Mexican philanthropy / Consuelo Castro.

The health of women in Mexico: opportunities and challenges / Ana Langer and Jennifer Catino.

Nongovernmental organizations and the changing structure of Mexican politics: the cases of environmental and human rights policy / Fernanda Somuano.

Change and continuity in attention to poverty in Mexico / Sara Gordon Rapoport.

Notes:

"First published 2006 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-47509-7

1-315-70585-0

1-317-47510-0

1-280-93423-9

9786610934232

0-7656-2217-3

9781315705859

OCLC:

476081542