Mexicos Reforms: The Devil In The Details – Forbes
Mexicos Reforms: The Devil In The Details –...
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Benefiting from Immigration – Council for North American Policy | Council for North American Policy
A conversation in North American policy would be incomplete without addressing the issue of immigration. The debate centers on whether immigration strengthens the economy and contributes positively to society as a whole. Citizens and policymakers question whether an influx of immigrants increases crime and the threat of terrorism to the United States. These social debates mask the more important, fact-based economic conversation that should be taking place in Washington. The immigration boom since the 1960s has warranted a review and revision of U.S. immigration policy, but there has been no overhaul since 1986. The comprehensive immigration bill of 2013...
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NAFTA turns 20: Mexico is pact’s biggest winner – Canada – CBC News
Ross Perot may have had it right after all about who would win under NAFTA.The North American Free Trade Agreement was an important step for all three members, but the evidence points to Mexico — at the time the weak sister in the group that included two G7 economies, the United States and Canada — as by far the biggest winner.On the 20th anniversary of the pact, Mexico — in 1994, an insular, economic basket case — has in two decades emerged as a forward-looking country with expanding global reach, a handful of world-class corporations and a ballooning middle...
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20 years after NAFTA, Mexico has transformed | Dallas Morning News
Leodegarco Ramírez Ramírez smiles as he stands in a spot symbolizing the rise of a new Mexico, an area of cornfields that are slowly being replaced by manufacturing plants where his sons and nephews make airplanes and automobiles.Ramirez and his countrymen are part of a transformation as Mexico moves from a commodity, crisis-prone, agriculture-dominated economy to a more broad-based one with manufacturing plants that produce everything from aerospace and auto parts to refrigerators.“I tell my sons things are looking up for Mexico,” he said. “We’ll go to the United States more out of curiosity than necessity.”There is debate over...
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Mexico’s Amazing Year – Bloomberg
Spare a thought for Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto. After engineering an ambitious reformist pact among Mexico’s three major political parties, he whirled through his first year in office rewriting laws on everything from energy to television and education to elections. Yet Mexico’s economic performance in 2013 was disappointing, and Mexico’s businesses and foreign investors aren’t exactly exuberant. It’s enough to damp a reformer’s spirits.These are early days for Pena Nieto’s new policies, and the reforms he’s achieved so far will take time to show results. A little patience is justified — but not too much. There’s a lot...
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