Sector Comunicaciones Y Transportes

El sector de comunicaciones y transportes constituye una de las bases más importantes del desarrollo económico. En el mundo globalizado este sector no está ya sólo al servicio de una nación, sino de todas aquellas con las que se realizan intercambios. la infraestructura en la materia es hoy factor de competitividad internacional, y su calidad es medida también Para determinar el grado de desarrollo humano y económico de un país.

The report provides a description and an assessment of the recent actions carried out by the Mexican government to enhance the quality of regulation and regulatory governance in the rail sector in Mexico.

This conference proceedings explores how widespread diffusion and application of cleaner technologies can help countries reach their sustainable development goals.

Beginning in 1983, the Mexican government implemented one of the most extensive programs of market-oriented reform in the developing world. Downsizing the State examines a key element of this reform program: the privatization of public firms. Drawing upon interviews with government officials, business executives, and labor leaders as well as data from government archives and corporate documents, MacLeod highlights the difficulties of linking market reforms to improved public welfare. Privatization failed to live up to its promise of raising living standards or decentralizing the economy. Indeed, privatization actually increased the concentration of wealth in Mexico while redirecting the economy toward foreign markets. These findings contribute to theoretical debates regarding state autonomy and the embeddedness of economic action. MacLeod calls into question the autonomy of the Mexican state in its privatization program. He shows that the creation of markets where public firms once dominated has involved both the destruction of social relations and the construction of new relations and institutions to regulate the market.

This text argues that, instead of leading toward greater democratization, Mexico's policies of privatization in the 1980s were used for personal benefit, and to lubricate the existing state-labour relationship. It builds its case around the privatization of Mexico's telecommunications.