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...

This article analyzes the industrial policy implemented in Mexico as a result of the trade liberalization, highlighting its role in the configuration of an industrial specialization pattern that revolved around inbond assembly activities and whose main feature was manufactured goods with low...

This article deals with the evolution of competitive balance (CB) in the Mexican soccer league from its professionalization to date (1943-2015). We calculate and even adapt several distribution measures used in previous works for European competitions to analyze three theoretical interconnected...