Introduction
George Philip
1. The Rise and Collapse of Stabilising Government
Rosario Enriquez
2. Debt and Oil-Led Development: The Economy under Lopez Portillo
Paul Luke
3. The Miguel de la Madrid Sexenio: Major Reforms or Foundation for Disaster?
Armen Kouyoumdjian
4. Mexico’s 1986 Financial Rescue: Palliative or Cure?
Expernaza Duran
5. The Economic Crisis and Mexican Labour
Ian Roxborough
6. An Overview of the Mexican Agricultural Crisis
John Heath
7. Agriculture and the Environment: The Mexican Experience
Michael Redclift
8. Industrial Decentralisation and Regional Policy, 1970–1986: The Conflicting Policy Response
Ismael Aguilar-Barajas and Nigel Spence
9. Pemex and the Petroleum Sector
George Philip
10. Policies of the Mexican Government towards the Northern Frontier Region of Mexico (NFRM)
Mario Herrera Ramos
11. Mexico’s Maquiladora Programme: A Critical Evaluation
Leslie Sklair
Biography
George Philip was Emeritus Professor of Comparative and Latin American Politics at the LSE. In a distinguished academic career that spanned over 40 years, he became one of the leading Latin Americanists of his generation. Philip’s academic writings addressed key issues of Latin American politics and political economy. He introduced several generations of both undergraduate and postgraduate students to the politics of Latin America. He had the talent to make the complex politics of the region understandable and compelling for an audience that may have no previous knowledge of it.
