The desing of a regional development policy for the southeast of Mexico should go beyond and increase in social expenditure: it requires a trough policy review to attack the structural problems which have inhabited the region’s economic development. This paper presents evidence of social and...

In 1993 two thirds of the labour force were working in the informal sector, without the benefits of both social security and labor legislation. Three facts will reinforce this: the working population grows at a faster rate than the global population, the participation of women in labor will...