1st Edition
Planning the Mexican Economy Alternative Development Strategies
By Jorge Buzaglo
Copyright 1984
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Mexican economy, like many other economies in the Third World, has grown as the result of a flourishing oil industry. One major problem which faces economic development planners in such economies is how to ensure that development in the oil sector leads on to more general development in the rest of the economy. Often, oil led development may induce agricultural stagnation, increasing food... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Oil and Development: the Mexican Background 3. Development Alternatives and Strategies 4. The Model 5. Estimation of the Model 6. Policy Experiments.
Biography
Jorge Buzaglo, at the time of the first publication, was Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Review of the first publication:
‘Jorge Buzaglo's book reflects the vaunting ambition of Mexican policy-makers before the fall. It is tightly constructed, well-informed, and (as far as the reviewer can judge) technically ingenious.’
— Laurence Whitehead, Third World Quarterly
