This volume discusses the development of the Mexican manufacturing sector during the NAFTA era. This book pursues several objectives simultaneously. Firstly, it gives continuity to and revitalizes the structuralist economic perspective and debate proposed by Latin American development theory....

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Structural heterogeneity in Mexican manufacturing industry, 1994-2008 -- Chapter 2: Market concentration and structural change: The food, beverages and tobacco industry -- Chapter 3: The transformation of the textile and apparel sector after NAFTA -- Chapter 4: The...