Explore Issue Areas

  • Aging
  • Agriculture and Food
  • Animal Welfare
  • Arts and Culture
  • Athletics and Sports
  • Children and Youth
  • Civil Society
  • Community and Economic Development
  • Computers and Technology
  • Consumer Protection
  • Crime and Safety
  • Disabilities
  • Education and Literacy
  • Employment and Labor
  • Energy and Environment
  • LGBTQI
  • Government Reform
  • Health
  • Housing and Homelessness
  • Human Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Humanitarian and Disaster Relief
  • Hunger
  • Immigration
  • International Development
  • Journalism and Media
  • Men
  • Nonprofits and Philanthropy
  • Parenting and Families
  • Peace and Conflict
  • Poverty
  • Prison and Judicial Reform
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Substance Abuse and Recovery
  • Transportation
  • Welfare and Public Assistance
  • Women

Explore Collections

Special Collections are curated collections of research that address a specific topic or research question.

  • IssueLab Results is #OpenForGood

  • Democracy Special Collection

  • Gun Violence Special Collection

  • Immigration Strategies Special Collection

  • Affordable Care Act Special Collection

  • Race and Policing Special Collection

View All

Knowledge Centers are a custom service of IssueLab providing organizations with a simple way to manage and share knowledge on their own websites.

  • New York Foundation Knowledge Center

  • European Foundation Centre Knowledge Center

  • TrustAfrica's African Giving Knowledge Center

View All
Get our monthly emails
  • Help
  • Sign in
  • Upload
  • Issue Areas
  • Collections
  • Services
  • About
  • News

Please login first to save in your collection.

LOGIN

SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

My Collection (0)


Visit My Library
GET EMAILS UPLOAD

Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Update After 23 Years

by Lara Merling; Mark Weisbrot; Joseph Sammut; Stephan Lefebvre; Vitor Mello

Mar 29, 2017
  • Immigration
  • International Development
  • Poverty

  • DESCRIPTION

This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region and with its own economic performance, over the 23 years since NAFTA took effect, based on the available economic and social indicators. Among the results, it finds that Mexico ranks 15th out of 20 Latin American countries in growth of real GDP per person, the most basic economic measure of living standards; Mexico's poverty rate in 2014 was higher than the poverty rate of 1994; and real (inflation-adjusted) wages were almost the same in 2014 as in 1994. It also notes that if NAFTA had been successful in restoring Mexico's pre-1980 growth rate -- when developmentalist economic policies were the norm -- Mexico today would be a high-income country, with income per person comparable to Western European countries. If not for Mexico's long-term economic failure, including the 23 years since NAFTA, it is unlikely that immigration from Mexico would have become a major political issue in the United States, since relatively few Mexicans would seek to cross the border. 

This report updates a version released in February 2014.

More

Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Update After 23 Years

Download via Publisher

Download via IssueLab (683.08 KB)

Save To Library

Share Via

Suggest an edit

Published By

  • Center for Economic and Policy Research

Copyright

  • Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Document Type

  • Issue/Policy Brief
  • Report/Whitepaper

Language

  • English

Geography

  • North America / Mexico
Linked Data show/hide

This web page is marked up with Schema.org microdata and formatted for machine-reading. Here's why that matters. Have a peek at what a machine sees here .

Title: Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Update After 23 Years
Publication date 2017-03-29
Publication Year 2017
Authors Lara Merling , Mark Weisbrot , Joseph Sammut , Stephan Lefebvre , Vitor Mello
Copyright holder(s) Center for Economic and Policy Research
Geographical Focus North America / Mexico
Keywords mexico , mexican economy , ECLAC , IMF , percent
Document type Issue/Policy Brief , Report/Whitepaper
Language English
URL: https://birdsandbees.issuelab.org/resource/did-nafta-help-mexico-an-update-after-23-years.html
Resource provided by IssueLab

Get free, worthwhile monthly emails from IssueLab!

IssueLab
  • About
  • News
  • Services
Join Us
  • Add to Issuelab
  • Open Knowledge
  • Use Our Data
Support
  • FAQ
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • ToS

Subscribe to our mailing list

There was an error with registration, please try again
Successfully registered!