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| Author(s): |
Marcela Franzoni
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. 2022-05-18. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Políticas Públicas e Relações Internacionais. São Paulo |
| Defense date: | 2022-05-10 |
| Advisor: | Luis Fernando Ayerbe |
| Abstract | |
Mexico's relations with the United States are marked by asymmetry. Although the country has historically tried to diversify its international economic relations, the liberal reforms and the choice to join North America limited the establishment of counterweights, especially on issues that are most closely connected to bilateral relations and Mexican domestic politics - trade, migration and security. The aim of the research is to analyze Mexico's productive integration to the United States and its challenges to Mexican economic development between 1982 and 2019. The research focuses on the automotive industry, a key sector in the period of industrialization by import substitution and which became one of the most integrated into the US market after the North American Free Trade Agreement. The main hypothesis is: although the economic integration of Mexico with the United States has increased trade flows and foreign investment, leading the Mexican automobile industry to position itself among the most productive in the world, relations between the two countries have not been capable of invigorating the articulation of an endogenous accumulation process. We argue that the challenges of Mexican economic development are explained, above all, by the liberalization policy implemented after the debt crisis in 1982, which extinguished sectoral policies and denied NAFTA the promotion of development. The methodology of the thesis is based on the review of specialized literature; in the analysis of the official documents available in the Diario Oficial de la Federación, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United States Trade Representative and National Development Plans; and in the systematization of primary data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Banco de México and the United States Census Bureau. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/00711-8 - The Mexico's relations with the United States: the asymmetry and the interdependence |
| Grantee: | Marcela Franzoni |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |