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...

Based on the preparation of a database that estimates production output numbers, working hours, and their ratios for 5 branches and 27 categories of economic activity, this article analyzes the evolution of the textile and apparel industry in Mexico in the 1994-2008 period. A shift-share type...